I upgraded to Lucid (fresh install), and this bug keeps affecting me. I
agree with the previous poster, it's not a low priority bug.

To switch off, I had to put my finger over the power on button and select
the right choice from the pop up menu.

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, rupert <email address hidden> wrote:

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> ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47870748/Screenshot.png
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> visual corruption affecting several panel applets
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448
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> Status in Compiz: New
> Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: Unknown
> 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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