Thanks for your bug. That looks like an ubuntulooks issue, reassigning. Maybe you could get a backtrace with "thread apply all bt' next time it happens to you and maybe with debug version of ubuntulooks and libcairo installed?
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gnome-panel => ubuntulooks Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- gnome-panel dead-locked after apt-get upgrade https://launchpad.net/bugs/64120 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs