Thanks for your bug report. The crash looks like a memory corruption. Could you try to get a valgrind log for it (you can follow the instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind for that)?
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- [apport] gnome-panel crashed with SIGSEGV https://launchpad.net/bugs/96891 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs