gnome-panel crashes on startup in jaunty

[roots]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

when starting jaunty, gnome-panel crashes after login, that is, most areas are grey and only two applets (user switcher and cpu freq applet) stay responsive. this happens on every startup.

when trying to logout, i do get the message that gnome-panel is still running and not responding. when opening a terminal and doing gnome-panel --replace all is fine until this command is quit.

strange thing is: i've tried jaunty first a couple of days ago, when this bug did NOT occur. however, on that first install, i installed "over" previous ubuntu intrepid, without formatting the partition, therefore using my old intrepid home folder. today, i did a clean install of jaunty, that is, formatting the drive. now, this crash all of a sudden occurs.

please let me know how i can help debugging.

cheers,
roots.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

gnome-panel:
  Installed: 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a '.crash' file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

 If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

 If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

 If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.
 I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[roots (roots)]

opening bug again, because none of your options given applies.

[roots (roots)]

(1) i'm using jaunty, not a stable release.
(2) using ubuntu, but the "crash" does not produce a crash report in /var/crash

thanks, roots.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[jrstravino (jrstravino-gmail)]

I have the same problem here with the Jaunty beta...

"when starting jaunty, gnome-panel crashes after login"
"when trying to logout, i do get the message that gnome-panel is still running and not responding"

[jrstravino (jrstravino-gmail)]

.xsession-errors

(gnome-panel:3494): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24

(gnome-panel:3494): libglade-WARNING **: Unexpected element <requires-version> inside <glade-interface>.

** (gnome-panel:3494): DEBUG: Adding applet 6.
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/tux/.compiz/session/101362b80b9a79f7fa123881707735029100000033310020"
Starting gtk-window-decorator

[jrstravino (jrstravino-gmail)]

bug fixed in the latest updates...

Thanks,