gnome-panel crashes when loggin off - not as root!!

[Gerry Tool]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 15:54 -0800, Ian Burrell wrote:
> On 1/21/06, David Nielsen <gnomeuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> > lør, 21 01 2006 kl. 23:59 +0100, skrev Roger Grosswiler:
> >
> > > i deleted .gconf everything with .gnome* and .gtk
> > >
> > > now it works, thanks. Was definitively my profile that crashed somehow.
> >
> > That is a very bad solution really, what happens with say fcX to FC5
> > upgrades in profiles don't migrate properly. Unless you did something to
> > your configuration to cause this I'd say it warrents investigation.
> >
> > I guess we'll have to test a migration once we get to test3 to see if
> > the issue continues and under which conditions. Do you have a backup of
> > the offending setup?
> >
> 
> I followed a suggestion of somebody on fedora-devel and deselected
> "Enable software
> sound mixing (ESD)" in the Sound preferences panel.  Logout then
> worked fine.  Reselecting it and it crashed.
> 
> It is possible that not playing sound is the default.  In that case,
> using root or deleting the configuration directories go back to the
> default which happens to work.  Temporarily disabling the event sounds
> until the bug is fixed is much better than deleting all your settings.
> 
>  - Ian
> 
I can confirm that this indeed bypasses the problem.  Bugzilla #178228
still needs fixing, but this should be a good clue.  I'll add my
confirmation to the bug report.

Gerry