Hi, I also intermittently experience the same symptoms (i.e., a dialog indicating that there was a problem loading the mixer applet and no mixer applet on the panel), but I don't know if it has the same root cause. On my system, .xsession-errors contains
** (gnome-panel:2525): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0' -- Matt http://ftbfs.org/kraai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org