gnome-panel hang

[Andy Baumhauer <abaumhau neo rr com>]

During the updates on 4/18/07, when I logged back into Gnome, the 
gnome-panel hangs.  The "Updates" balloon appears at the top far left, 
instead of on the updater icon on the top right.  I had added hwsensors 
on the top toolbar, and these weren't appearing (using acpi and 
lmsensors).  The toolbar was completely unresponsive.  Icons on the 
desktop would open, but many programs would hang on start 
(gnome-terminal) and a blank popup would appear.

I was unable to confirm which applet was hanging the panel.  I ended up 
fixing the problem my removing .gnome, .gnome2, and .gconf (probably 
overkill).

Andrew B