Comment 188 for bug 439448

For Manuel Bua: Does Intel turbo boost work correctly out-of-the-box on your i7 processor? have u tried benchmarks? Sorry, I know this is not a blog, but u left no contact on u on launchpad. It's better to ask a user than google. could u reply with an e-mail? Thanks.

Manuel, u could try to reinstall the panel in Synaptic and all other affected packages too. In my case, killing the panel always works.

And by the way, why all of u use "sudo" in the beginning? it's far enough to type "killall gnome-panel" in the "run application" dialogue. Second, I'm pretty sure this has nothing in common with Nvidia drivers, I have an Intel GMA graphics (so no proprietary Nvidia drivers installed) and I'm still affected by the issue.

Actually I haven't had this problem for a very long time (2-3 weeks at least). I keep updating frequently.