What is gnome-panel racing against? For the record, doing:
killall gnome-panel *always* brings back gnome-panel for me. I've done this 100's of times. :-( -- gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login https://launchpad.net/bugs/47602 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
