Thanks Rupert that is exactly what has been happening ----phantom
icons ------which in a fit of good house keeping I delete . I believe
that it was the sound icon that cloned itself ? When I delete the
extra I later find that it was something else . Everything has been
behaving itself for the last couple of weeks . Can't remember if the
icons have done their shuffle trick on restart lately .

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:50 AM, rupert <email address hidden> wrote:
> I haven't had the issue either for the past week. Has a separate update
> fixed it?
>
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> visual corruption affecting several panel applets
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448
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>
> Status in Compiz: Invalid
> Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: New
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
> I'm using karmic x86_64, updated as of 2009-09-30.
>
> It's very hard to describe the bug, so a screen shot is attached.
>
> As seen on the screen shot, after start up the notification area gets scrambled, it shows, in case of this screen shot, two volume control icons, one of them is the actual volume control icon, and the other one is just a copy of it, it just sits there, clicking on it doesn't do anything, and right clicking on it will bring the standard notification area sub-menu. Also missing here is a network manager icon.
>
> However:
> The phantom icon can be a clone of any other icon in the notification area. I've seen already phantoms of bluez icons, network manager icons and so on. And the missing icon,can also be any of the other icons, there is no rule or consistency :)
>
> Also, killing the application with a missing icon will remove the phantom icon, starting the application afterwards will show a correct functioning icon.
> In the case of this screen shot, the missing icon was of a nm-applet, so after I killed the nm-applet, one of the volume icons (the phantom one) disappeared,  I then started the nm-applet again, and the correct icon for it appeared and worked as intended.
>
> I haven't seen any related messages in the logs for this.
> If you need more information and/or some additional testing,I will be glad to do it.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Sep 30 17:31:38 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-panel
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
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> EDIT (RodGer):
>  I'm adding the description from the report I've done for a similar problem on my system which is not a 64 bit system. I also marked my report as duplicate (bug #484547)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Nov 18 01:04:57 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-panel
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
>
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