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-- Description of the problem I accidentally removed my notification area from the gnome panel instead of removing gnome do. Thinking I would just add it back on when I had finished what I was doing I restarted X. When I was fully logged back in the gnome panel was repeatedly restarting; like the kind of restart you get when issue sudo killall gnome-panel in the terminal. -- Detailed description how I attempted to fix the problem Since the gnome-panel was constantly restarting every half a second or so I did not have enough time to re-add the notification area. Next I tried to get into sessions so I could uncheck the bluetooth applet, that didn't work either. After that I tried to get into the terminal through alt + f2 - that didn't work, however I did manage to make an icon that launches it. However, because of the constant re-starting I couldn't enter my password to kill processes. Eventually I managed to add an icon for the system monitor and launch it. From there I gradually killed off all processes to do with the gnome panel. After I killed the bluetooth applet the problem stopped; I am 99% sure that bluetooth was the applet causing the problem. It would be quite easy for a new user to repeat this bug. I had trouble fixing it and I would describe myself as an intermediate level user. A new user might find this seriously off-putting. Summary: This is a major problem. -- After I managed to kill bluetooth I re-added the notification area and restarted X. Everything worked fine from there. -- In previous releases In previous releases I noticed that if I removed the notification area a small window popped up for all the applets when I restarted (containing the icon). When I tried to close the window it always popped up again. Could this problem be caused by this behaviour now be handled in a different way by other packages? -- Information on my system (Ubuntu guidelines) 1) I am using amd64 9.04 Jaunty Testing. It was basically a clean install, other than some sound fixes in alsa, Ubuntu restricted extras and gnome do I have not put anything else on. I don't think this is relevant but I am using the new ext4 filesystem installed in an encrypted lvm using the alternate CD. 2) Version: 1.8-0 3) I expected it to not to cause gnome panel to crash repeatedly when I restarted X. 4) The gnome panel repeatedly crashed repeatedly, almost completely disabling me from using the UI until I managed to kill the bluetooth applet process. Sorry about the huge bug report but I am not known to be brief. ^^ ** Affects: bluez-gnome (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Invalid ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Invalid ** Tags: gnome restart -- Bluetooth applet causes gnome panel to repeatedly crash https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/349924 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs