Comment 6 for bug 482690

I think this is related to Bug #466118 to which I have been subscribed. On 2009-11-25 I found that I could replicate this problem consistently on two different PC's and emailed the following information to a respondent of that bug.

"I'm a newbie, please bear with me. I saw your comments on Bug #466118 (Panel Crashes) on 9.10 and I wanted to provide some information. I had what seems to be a very similar problem with the panel not fully loading and no access to most items on the panel, including the menus. I had to exit by Ctl-alt-del and force a reboot by killing the panel (panel not responding msg). To successfully reboot, I often had to power down the PC and open with the "Fail-safe Gnome" option

9.10 also booted very slowly on my PC.

What I found seems to be associated with the three "Weather Report" app launchers on my top panel. (To watch my weather in Ohio and a son on each coast). I found that by removing the two extra launchers, the panel seems to work flawlessly on every normal restart.

I also did a clean install of 9.10 on another PC that I have and had the exact same results. I can consistently duplicate these results by adding a second or third weather report app launcher and rebooting. These PC's both have older 2 to 2.1Ghz AMD processors.

My three weather app launchers worked without a hitch in 9.04

I hope this information may be of some help. I would be glad to provide more information if needed."