It happened to me after adding a new panel: - right clicked top panel, "New panel" - panel appeared at the right edge of the screen - right clicked new panel, "Properties" - set orientation to "Top" - the panel stacked below the existing one - checked auto-hide - all panels turned empty at once, the system froze with 100% cpu used by process gnome-panel, also using an increasing amount of memory then I had a hard time gaining control of my box, the system was nearly unresponsive, the process would immediately restart when killed, rebooting didn't solve it. In case it happens to somebody else, here's how I got out of trouble: I didn't exactly know what to do but it had to be something with gnome-panel settings in my home folder, so i switched to a text-mode console (ctrl-alt-f1), logged in, "find -iname *panel*|less" showed lots of results, among which i found: ~/.gconf/apps/panel/general/%gconf.xml -- at the bottom i found two entries for the default top and bottom panels as well as a third one called "panel_4", which i removed ~/.gconf/apps/panel/toplevels/panel_4 -- i removed the whole folder then i rebooted and finally resumed breathing...
-- gnome-panel consuming 100% of CPU and driving up memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479826 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
