Gnome Panel 2.24.1 crashing and not recovering

[gmerrick]

Binary package hint: xorg

There is a bug in the Xorg Gnome Panel 2.24.1 where it will crash when an icon is clicked in a secondary displays seperate xwindow.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
$ apt-cache policy xorg
xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.4~5ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

At times, when clicking on a icon on my secondary monitor which is it's own xwindow, the panel will pop up an empty Error message window and will hang both xwindow screens. this can happen on it's own or during when wine is running WOW on the primary monitor as a maximized application.

attached is the output from the nvidia-bug.sh script and the .xsession-errors logs

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-7-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:18:38 UTC 2008

SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
xkbcomp:

[gmerrick (at903)]

Probably a duplicate of 289241.