I have a similar (identical?) problem with intermittent panel freezes at boot. I have found ten other bugs with nearly identical trouble. I have also discovered that I can recover my panel functionality with two steps that you may wish to try. This works 100% of the time on my machine.
Access a terminal (Ctl-Alt-F1) and execute the following command; $ killall gnome-panel The second step is to return to the desktop (Ctl-Alt-F7) and open a "Run application" window (Alt-F2) and execute the command; $ gnome-panel --replace My panels and system are completely functional now (except for missing weather apps). Do not use a desktop terminal for the second command - the process will hang in a terminal. See Bug #466118 for more comments. Hope this works for you too... -- After "Karmic" kernel updates, the panels are unresponsive. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp