can't start panel

["Andrew V. Shuvalov" <andrew ecsl cs sunysb edu>]

[andrew@apple andrew]$ panel
debug: need old_cfg here

** ERROR **: sigsegv caught

** ERROR **: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length
erro
  serial 41 error_code 16 request_code 56 minor_code 0

Aborted
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ldd /usr/bin/panel
        libmico2.0.5.so => /usr/lib/libmico2.0.5.so (0x40005000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4018e000)
        libgnomeui.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.0 (0x401d1000)
        libgnome.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnome.so.0 (0x40212000)
        libgnomesupport.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomesupport.so.0
(0x40220000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40227000)
        libgdk_imlib.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.1 (0x4022a000)
        libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x40246000)
        libgif.so => /opt/kde/lib/libgif.so (0x40271000)
        libjpeg.so.6 => /opt/kde/lib/libjpeg.so.6 (0x40279000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40296000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x402a3000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x402ab000)
        libgtk.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgtk.so.1 (0x402bf000)
        libgdk.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdk.so.1 (0x40354000)
        libglib.so.1 => /usr/lib/libglib.so.1 (0x40372000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4037d000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40388000)
        libstdc++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 (0x4041f000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40459000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40472000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)

  What's the bug is?

Andrew