This is also happening for me - I'm not sure what the procedure is but being confirmed I didn't want to duplicate the post.
Since installing Gnome the panel has been non-existant, crashing from a fresh install. Thoughts/fixes welcomed... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/903733 Title: gnome-panel crashed with SIGSEGV in magazine_chain_pop_head() Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Gnome Panel crashed on startup. I also noticed that there was a kind of gnome-settings-daemon error because desktop icons used the fallback icon theme. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-panel 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Tue Dec 13 18:06:04 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318) ProcCmdline: gnome-panel SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x62d9cd <g_slice_alloc+269>: mov (%edi),%edx PC (0x0062d9cd) ok source "(%edi)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%edx" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-panel StacktraceTop: g_slice_alloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_slice_alloc0 () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 gtk_style_properties_merge () from /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 Title: gnome-panel crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_alloc() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-10 (3 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare tape video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/903733/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

