After a bit of googling, I ended up looking in ~/.xsession-errors. I found the following lines, but they're not much more edifying, which is probably part of the bug:
** (gnome-panel:3373): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1273: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_KeyboardApplet: (null) ** (gnome-panel:3373): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1273: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_KeyboardApplet: (null) -- panel reports an error but no details https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/530669 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