After searching a bit here on launchpad, i found this bug. It happens that i have a similar problem. i upgraded to karmic today and the gnome-panel is just grey without any icon or label on it, and this after fresh startup and login!!! very surprised, i when to tty and restarted X. then everything was ok, the panel was reloading correctly... until i had to reboot the machine and the same problem occurred again after the next bootup. after reading your posts (and configuring ctrl+alt+backspace to kill x more easily), i tried to killall gnome-panel only, and that was it! all the icons appeared on the newly created panel, except my 3 weather-applet !!! here is the trick. i understand that the blocking applet is the weather one, i remove them 3, and after a full reboot, the panel is loading correctly, finally.
So John Vivirito, can you try to remove your 2 weather applets ? then i have a crash of indicator-applet, i have to search the appropriate bug report for it, but in fact i think i will remove this applet, since empathy is so buggy that i don't even use it. I also have some random metacity crashes... but i can't do without this one....hum hum. ps to John Vivirito: i understand that you want to rise the priority of this bug, a non functional panel is not acceptable! the release of karmic will suffer of this problem, for sure. but your posts lack information or investigations. Are you using your tty+killall since 2 weeks and accepted the situation as it is? ps to Sebastien B. : you refused to see that an important bug is hidden in this report, but in fact, the issue is severe. How come a stupid weather applet can block (maybe deadlock) gnome-panel, and prevent the render of the whole panel? i would be very afraid to release a desktop with such a buggy panel. i will now tell all my friends/relatives NOT to upgrade to karmic. i don't want them to have to call me and use the tty when they don't see the application menu! good luck to everybody. may the free and open source software win. -- Gnome-panel fails to load various applets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426185 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
