Comment 72 for bug 426185

I still see this intermittently - every 3 or 4 logins roughly, irrespective of whether the login is after a boot. This has persisted over multiple installs (9.10 and 10.04, both x86-64). These were clean installs, not upgrades, with no configuration files copied, either user or system (except Firefox and Conky).

I've added several applets over the default (CPU scaling, system monitor, and the xkill-like applet), and the applet affected seems to be random (but usually only one at a time). If a race is suspected: this machine is an i7 (8 virtual cores).

What annoys me is the dialogue that appears, offering either to do nothing or permanently remove the applet - a retry button would save most of the hassle if an actual fix is out of the question...

gareth@gareth-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

gareth@gareth-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux gareth-desktop 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

From .xsession-errors.old:
** (gnome-panel:15527): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1273: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_MultiLoadApplet:
System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred