I have the same behavior on a dell dimension 5400 desktop. (about 3-4 years old). Switching to tty1 and back does the same thing, I see the panels for a flash and then they disappear. Watching daemon.log, I think the following line appeared when i switched back, not sure if it was a coincidence or not:
Oct 5 15:19:44 compy086 acpid: client connected from 5404[0:0] -- Intrepid Alpha 4 Gnome freezes Thinkpad R31 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259385 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
