[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

[Paul Sladen]

This looks like it might be racey.  Doing:

  killall gnome-panel

*sometimes* brings back the panel (rather than displaying it, but the
panel not responding).  However doing:

  strace -p `pidof gnome-panel`

immediately after killing the previous panel, allows the panel to start
successfully;  possibly the ptrace was slowing it down sufficiently.

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gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login
https://launchpad.net/bugs/47602