A google search turned up another message:
> I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by
> purging /tmp and all the config files in my home directory. There is
> probably a better way but it was a new install and I didn't have my
> files on it anyhow. So try creating a new user with a new home
> directory and see if that fixes things.
Don't know if that applies to you, though.
Hmm... feeling some dejavu with that quote. Odd. Anyhow in that one I wasn't quite talking about this issue. The times I have had this happen are when I do something to crash Gnome. Typically a sudo killall gnome-panel from a regular terminal is all it takes to fix this.
-Mike
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Michael E. Crute
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