Comment 6 for bug 974382

I apologize for my rant.
I've got valgrind running on my unity-panel-service now, by doing this:
  sudo mv /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service.real
  sudo ln -sf unity-panel-service.wrap /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
  cat <<"EOF" | sudo tee -a /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service.wrap
#!/bin/sh
me=${0##*/}
rname="$me.real"
real=$(which "$rname" 2>/dev/null)
[ -z "$real" ] || { [ -x "${0%/*}/${rname}" ] && real="${0%/*}/$rname"; }
[ -n "$real" ] || { echo "FAILED TO FIND real: ${rname}"; exit 1; }

G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly \
exec valgrind -v --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes --num-callers=38 \
   --log-file=${HOME:-/tmp}/${USER:+${USER}-}${me}.log \
   "$real"
EOF
  sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service

(most of that is just for my future reference. i will post back with more info).