> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Miguel A. Lerma wrote: > > > > our automatic nightly yum update has loaded glibc 2.5-58. > > > Since this morning, some users on some machines sometimes (I can't say > > > It more clear) have no gnome panel. > > > Some of them can start it with gnome-panel, some do not. > > > For me it seems like a memory fault, something like no free alloc or > > > something. It never happend befor the glibc update. > > > > Same here. We have SL 5.5. Not sure if it is a pattern, > > but all machines I have seen having the problem are 32-bit, > > the 64-bit ones seem Ok for now. I am including below the > > contents of an .xsession-errors file. > > Are these problems before or after a reboot ?
After logging in once. If you log out and then log back in the gnome panel is gone or non operational. Rebooting does not help. Cleaning /tmp seems to help, but I am still experimenting with workarounds until the developers release a fixed version of whatever is broken. Miguel A. Lerma
