Gnome panel crashes when changing color

[Mike Chambers]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:08 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:03 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:48 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:34 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 17:31 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > > > It seems, whether you use the bottom panel, or change the top panel to
> > > > > be the bottom (speaking after an initial rawhide install), and go to
> > > > > properties and change the color of it, it crashes.  It logs you out of
> > > > > gnome and into gdm, then fails to load and won't allow you to log in to
> > > > > gnome again.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anyone else seen this lately?
> > > > 
> > > > If your panel crashes, that does not end your session. Try it:
> > > > 
> > > > killall -SEGV gnome-panel
> > > > 
> > > > If your session ends, most likely the X server crashed.
> > > 
> > > ...in which case, boot to initlevel 3, login, startx, reproduce the bug
> > > if you can, if it dumps you back to the console, take a copy
> > > of /var/log/Xorg.0.log before starting X again. Error messages should be
> > > in there.
> > 
> > No errors in there that I could find.  But in my .xsession-errors file
> > there are plenty, which is attached.
> 
> Oh yea, and removing my .gconf/apps/panel dir restores my panels to the
> original defaults and I am able to login again. 

Filed a bug against gnome-panel as not sure really what the cause is.
Also attached xsession-error.log to help.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532213


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