I just created a brand new user and experience the exact same bug every
time, with either user.
The bug is corrected if, after logging in, I type 'sudo
gnome-settings-daemon' into a terminal.  Then, to fix nautilus, I type
'killall nautilus' -- at that point everything runs great.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> can you recreate the same with a new user created on the system? it
> looks more like a broken profile rather than a bug in gnome-panel.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773472
>
> Title:
>  theme not applied to gnome-panel
>
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
>  I'm running Ubuntu as a VM under VMware Server and recently upgraded
>  to 11.04 from 10.10.  I use the Gnome classic mode since Unity isn't
>  supported by the vmware drivers.  For some reason, I cannot apply the
>  theme to  the gnome-panel.  It seems to be stuck with the default
>  theme, while the windows are using Ambiance.  I've found several
>  scattered reports of the same issue:
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1HWwHhZeTE
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1743065&highlight=panel+theme
>
>  Please let me know if you need any more info.
>
>  Here's the output of lsb_release -rd and apt-cache policy gnome-panel:
>
>  Description:  Ubuntu 11.04
>  Release:      11.04
>
>
>  gnome-panel:
>    Installed: 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.3
>    Candidate: 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.3
>    Version table:
>   *** 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.3 0
>          500 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: gnome-panel 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.3
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-virtual 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-virtual x86_64
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Fri Apr 29 10:29:48 2011
>  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
>  GConfNonDefault:
>
> /apps/panel/general/applet_id_list=[trashapplet_screen0,workspace_switcher_screen0,window_list_screen0,show_desktop_button_screen0,notification_area_screen0,clock_screen0,mixer_screen0,applet_0,fast_user_switch_screen2,trashapplet_screen2,workspace_switcher_screen2,window_list_screen2,show_desktop_button_screen2,indicator_applet_screen2,notification_area_screen2,clock_screen2,fast_user_switch_screen1,trashapplet_screen1,workspace_switcher_screen1,window_list_screen1,show_desktop_button_screen1,indicator_applet_screen1,notification_area_screen1,clock_screen1,applet_4,applet_5,applet_6,applet_1]
>
> /apps/panel/general/object_id_list=[browser_launcher_screen0,menu_bar_screen0,object_0,object_2,object_4,object_5,object_6,object_7,object_8,object_10,object_12,object_13,object_19,object_1,yelp_launcher_screen2,browser_launcher_screen2,menu_bar_screen2,yelp_launcher_screen1,browser_launcher_screen1,menu_bar_screen1,object_11,object_14,object_15,object_9]
>
> /apps/panel/general/toplevel_id_list=[bottom_panel_screen0,top_panel_screen0,bottom_panel_screen2,top_panel_screen2,bottom_panel_screen1,top_panel_screen1]
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64
> (20101007)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>   PATH=(custom, no user)
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (0 days ago)
>  XsessionErrors:
>   (gnome-panel:1933): GConf-WARNING **: Directory
> `/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen2/screen' was not being monitored
> by GConfClient 0x118df00
>   (gnome-panel:1933): GConf-WARNING **: Directory
> `/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen2/screen' was not being monitored by
> GConfClient 0x118df00
>   (gnome-panel:1933): GConf-WARNING **: Directory
> `/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen1/screen' was not being monitored
> by GConfClient 0x118df00
>   (gnome-panel:1933): GConf-WARNING **: Directory
> `/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen1/screen' was not being monitored by
> GConfClient 0x118df00
>   (gnome-appearance-properties:2219): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
> gtk_tree_model_sort_real_unref_node: assertion `elt->ref_count > 0' failed
>
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