This still occurs in 11/04. I don't remember it when first installed, so recent updates may have re-introduced this (if it was ever gone). This is on an Acer Aspire 5517 (AMD 64-bit) with the classic interface. As reported, re-logging in seems to bring things back. My gut suspicion is that on the first login after booting, something hasn't fully finished starting up, and the applets or the panel trips over it, or possibly something is very busy, and the panel's applet launcher or some call the applets all make times out.
-- 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/676624 Title: Panel applets randomly fail to start. Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-panel I run a bunch of panel applets, and have had many of them fail to start on login. Unfortunately I do not remember the error message, but it will happen again, so when it does I'll write down the error message and post an update. So far, applets that have failed this way are: Indicator Applet Session Clock Hardware Monitor Gnome Sensor Applet Usually nothing fails. Occasionally just one of these will fail. Rarely, more than one will fail. If I immediately log out and log back in, the failed panel applet is working again. On a related note, the "Camera Monitor" applet quite often (but not always) brings up an error message claiming it is already running on login. This failure is not as annoying as it does not require a logout to recover from. Since this affects so many different applets, I do not believe the problem is in the applets themselves, instead it must be in the gnome panel. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.2-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 4f08ac62e89ad166a1e0b05f95495253 CheckboxSystem: fd6c484c0b5d20a2f1cd036ef0f63975 Date: Wed Nov 17 10:01:31 2010 GConfNonDefault: /apps/panel/general/applet_id_list=[applet_0,mixer_screen0,clock_screen0,notification_area_screen0,show_desktop_button_screen0,window_list_screen0,workspace_switcher_screen0,trashapplet_screen0,fast_user_switch_screen0,applet_2,applet_3,applet_6,applet_7,applet_16,applet_14] /apps/panel/general/object_id_list=[object_6,object_5,object_0,menu_bar_screen0,browser_launcher_screen0,yelp_launcher_screen0,clock_separator_screen0,object_9,object_1] /apps/panel/general/toplevel_id_list=[bottom_panel_screen0,top_panel_screen0] ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-panel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/676624/+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
