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

[Roger Grosswiler]

Am Samstag, den 21.01.2006, 15:54 -0800 schrieb Ian Burrell:
> 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
> 
*argh* i read this to late!!! yesterday, i enabled also esd, then it did
work no longer, but it has before! i really thought before, it has to do
something around the applets, which i "installed" before. But the
esd-enabling in fact was the last thing i did before!!

I try it out and let you know!

Roger