Gnome-panel hangs at startup

[torb]

Gnome-panel 2.9.(2..3) has a nasty habit of sometimes not starting correctly
here on my hoary.
It displays the top and bottom panel-bars but no applets at all and nautilus
doesn't set the background.
Gaim lives in my notification-applet and starts just fine.
By dropping to a tty and doing killall gnome-panel to restart it I get an empty
dialog called Fråga (question in Swedish).
If I try to close it and waits for the metacity to give me the "this program is
not responding, kill it?" dialog and go for the kill gnome-panel restarts and
this time it displays the dialog's contents with a text saying that there were
problems starting the window-list applet and buttons to reload or remove the
applet.
These are however non-functional and I have not been able to get further by
killing gnome-panel.

What can I do to help debug this?

God Jul!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11283.