<quote who="Matthew Davidson">

> 'Application "gnome-panel" (process xxxx) has crashed due to a fatal 
> error (segmentation fault)'

It should provide a button to report a bug - that will give you a really
simple UI to get a gdb backtrace and report it. If you want, I can take a
quick look at the backtrace independently of your bug report.

> Since this is only happening to one user (who hasn't customised anything
> to any great degree), I tried deleting the contents of .gnome*, but the
> problem keeps recurring.  I'm assuming that this is caused by a screwed-up
> config file for that user, and would have thought this would be sitting in
> that user's home directory; where else could GNOME be keeping it?  Or what
> am I missing?

Most of GNOME 2.x configuration is stored in GConf, which is a generalised
configuration system [ with all sorts of tasty features, but I can explain
those another time ;-) ].

If you're not at all fussed about losing configuration temporarily, you
might want to run a recursive unset on all the panel settings, like this:

  gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel

Try that, let us know how it goes. :-)

- Jeff

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