Another follow up. I can reproduce the issue by simply adding a new
panel, then setting "Orientation" to "Bottom". After ticking "Autohide",
gnome-panel freezes with all the aforementioned symptoms. It can be
resolved by just deleting the .gconf folder.
I'm not sure anymore that my issue is caused
To follow up. I've managed to resolve this issue by removing .gconf
.gconfd .gnome2 and .gnome2-private folders from my home directory.
After restarting Xorg, I've managed to login into my account, loosing
only the GNOME related settings (they're set to default now). I don't
know if this is the sam
I confirm the gnome-panel high CPU usage/growing memory consumption
issue. It occurs on an upgraded Ubuntu 9.10, on a Lenovo T61 machine.
I've completed the upgrade to 9.10 just a few days ago and I don't have
Skype installed. Now I can't login to the system, because the issue
occurs right after en
