Re: Gnome broken because of gnome-panel

[Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1 burntmail com>]

Sigmund Skjelnes wrote:
> Hi!
> I'd have used gnome as my window manager for some time, and it have 
> performed well, but today it seems like gnome-panel have some trouble. 
> When I'd tries to start a session, a error box popping up says: "Another 
> panel is already opened, exiting". Either the upper nor the lower menu 
> bar appears on the desktop. I'd think it is the gnome-panel, because the 
> same message popping up when I'd starting gnome-panel from a terminal. 
> It seems to me that some lock file is left on the system, as it should 
> have been removed, and now preventing the panel to start. Do somebody 
> have any ide of how to solve this?
>
> Hope somebody is able to get Gnome up and running again, because it's 
> useless without the menus, and I'd have to use the good old twm in the 
> meantime.
>
> The platform Gnome is running on is an NetBSD2.0.2 on a  i686 machine

I'm by no means an expert on this, but had the same problem on Gentoo. 
Solution here: 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409492-highlight-panel.html

Each distro appears to track sessions a different way.  For example, on 
a system here at work, I run Mandrake, and it doesn't have the file 
discussed in the article.

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Guy Rouillier