Gnome panel crashes when changing color

[Matthias Clasen]

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.