Comment 15 for bug 482690

I am also a subscriber to several similar bugs, so I thought I would give Jeremy's test (Bug #491280) a shot. I followed the KernelMainline Builds directions and installed;

linux-headers-2.6.34-999_2.6.34-999.201004241005_all.deb
linux-headers-2.6.34-999-generic_2.6.34-999.201004241005_i386.deb
linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic_2.6.34-999.201004241005_i386.deb

As expected my Nvidia drivers would not work with this upstream kernel.

The system booted just fine for me. All 5 of my Weather Report Apps were functional. Since this is an intermittent problem I tried my proven method of making it fail. I opened a terminal window and pounded out 25 "pkill gnome-panel" commands and 25 "killall gnome-panel" commands. The panels refreshed flawlessly every time.

I rebooted my system - again no problem. I repeated the 25&25 terminal commands and again the panels refreshed flawlessly.

I have never been able to perform more than 7 of the pkill or killall commands without a panel failure much less one hundred times in a row.

I then uninstalled the Mainline Kernels and rebooted. It failed on the first reboot. The second reboot succeeded. After opening a terminal window and running the "pkill gnome-panel" again it failed on the fourth retry.

This next kernel may fix this bug and I suspect a few others.