Gnome panel crash on logout/shutdown attempt

[alan]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Gerry Tool wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:09 -0500, glenn wrote:
> > Gerry Tool wrote:
> > > I have a fresh install FC5T2 completely up to date with today's updates.
> > > Whenever I try to logout  or shutdown via the panel System menu, I get
> > > an error dialog that says 'The Application "gnome-panel" has quit
> > > unexpectedly." with buttons to Restart Application or Close.  Clicking
> > > either, causes the panel to restart, but I can never log out without
> > > going to another terminal with Ctrl-Alt-Fx and rebooting.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else seeing this?
> > > 
> > > I couldn't find it in the known problems list, so assume I should
> > > bugzilla it, presumably against gnome-panel.  Will do after hearing back
> > > if anyone else sees it.
> > > 
> > 
> > This problem is gone in Jan 18 updates.  I had your problem yesterday.
> 
> I just did another yum update:
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> 
> Still have the problem.  Maybe the mirrors yum is checking aren't
> synced.

Try "yum clean all" and see if that fixes things.  Sometimes yum will get 
confused as to what it has or has not installed.

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