main panel icons overlap or get truncated

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Every time a new GNOME session starts (e.g. after a system restart), the arrangement of icons in the main panel is

(a) Pseudo-random in order and
(b) Sometimes broken, with buttons duplicated, overlapping, truncated or not displayed at all.

I cannot trace this behavior to anything in particular. With no system changes, multiple GNOME sessions will yield multiple & different results for icon placement, with varying degrees of success.

The following screenshots should illustrate the symptoms.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 20 22:25:50 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel

[Alexandros Papadopoulos (alexandros-papadopoulos)]

Please note that the keyboard layout indicator 2nd incarnation that seemed to be "behind" the wireless indicator icon fixed itself (after some momentary "jigging") a couple of minutes into the GNOME session.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #439448, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.