[KLUG Members] Gnome panel vanished after seg fault

[Adam Williams]

>As far as I know the panel information is all in configuration files 
>located in your users .gnome dir. 
>Unless you have a specially tweaked desktop you can just delete the 
>/home/user/.gnome and it will give you a clean slate, including the panel, 
>the next time you log on. If you do it that way I would suggest 
>backing up the dir and then rm -r ~/.gnome
>You could also grab some fresh ~/.gnome/panel* files from user who's 
>panel isn't messed up and try replacing the possibly corrupted files.
>Hope that gives you some ideas on where to go from here.

Log out of the GUI, and into the cli.  Do you see gconf running?  Or oafd?  
Somethings it helps to gconftool --shutdown to get things back in sync if 
gconfd is hanging around or stuck on something.  But DO NOT do this while 
your logged into gnome.  

This kind of behaviour results from some concurrency problems,  fixed in 
GNOME2.