gnome panel freaking out !

[nephish]

hey there, maybe one of you have seen this one.

sometimes while running gnome, the gnome-panel just starts freaking out. jittering back and forth, my cpu spikes and stays at 100%.
i can stop it with a killall gnome-panel, but i need it to go away,
anybody know this one?
thanks

[dkeav]

do a backtrace and file a bug report

[nephish]

10-4 will do

[techwise]

I had the same issue some time ago. tried everything.
The only solution was to create a new user dir for myself and start that from scratch,

M

[nephish]

you mean wipe out the /home/username directory? or just everything in it that has to do with gnome ?
did that do it ?
thanks

[techwise]

I renamed the home dir for my user and then created a fresh one. Then took my docs and non Gnome related files and moved them into the new one.

I kept the old one for a while in case I needed something.

I did try wiping the Gnome-Panel related stuff first but it did not fix it. It was truly a strange problem.

Mike

[nephish]

ok, thats what i will do, seems painless enough
thanks for the tip.

[sargek]

You don't have to wipe out the whole user directory, just the sub-directories pertaining to gnome (.gnome and .gnome2) should do it.

[nephish]

cool thanks, thats something i will remember, i have had it happen in Arch, debian, and Ubuntu, and i have had it happen in gnome 2.10 and 2.12
whew, kind of weird.
thanks for the tip