Fedora 12 GNOME panel glitch

[softie]

Today I was moving the panels around (just to see what configuration I like and such) when i found out that putting the bottom panel (set to autohide) on the top of the screen with the other panel causes Fedora to spaz out and freeze. It happened when I tried to open one of the menus of the top panel - completely frozen.

I rebooted, but the bottom panel was still on the top. Fedora itself didn't freeze, but the two panels seemed to cause each other to glitch out and they were both unusable. I can still access the desktop icons - Home, Trash and Computer - but I can't get to the System, Places etc menus.

What can I do about this? Is there a way to reset the panels to their defaults?

I don't even know how to access the terminal without the menu, so short of reinstalling Fedora I'm stuck on windows for now ;_;

edit: yeah, that did the trick. Thanks!

[zak_neutron]

Check out: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538156

I have too experienced several gnome-panel failures - either on boot or right-clicking on the workspace icons on the lower righthand side.

Do you have the Automatic Bug Reporting tool enabled? (you would need a redhat bugzilla account enabled) and the debuginfo installed (to allow backtraces).

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Softie

Sorry - a bit more practical advice. Remove the gnome-panel settings by doing the following:

At Boot - hit any key to get to the Grub window. Select your kernel you will log into (usually the latest at the top of the list. DO NOT press enter just yet - instead press 'a' key and edit the command line to include to something like this - in effect PUT the NUMBER 3 on the end:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on rhgb quiet 3

This will boot you into text-only.

Log in and run:

rm /home/ **your username**/.gnome/panel

This will remove your current gnome panel settings. Exit the text-mode by using the reboot command:

reboot now

Allow F12 to boot as normal - do not enter and edit in the grub screen. Log in as normal.

If this has not worked I have found deleting additional gnome settings may help (but bear in mind you will lose any personalised settings). If you want to do this do the all of the above to get you in the text-mode and instead of removing just the panel settings remove ALL gnome settings by using the following command:

cd /home/**your username**/

rm -Rf .gtkrc .esd_auth .gconf .gconfd .gnome .gnome2 .gnome-private .gnome2-private .nautilus .thumbnails .metacity .themes .screensaver