Gnome-panel : how to restore default state ?

[MrKnisely]

Senectus . wrote:

>On 12/16/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 16:11 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
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>>>On 12/16/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
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>>>>But this time as I explained, it seems to really be related to the Gnome
>>>>panel and it chocking on my existing user directory (it works fine with
>>>>a "fresh" user).
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>>>Same here.. If I create a new user, that guy logs in without a
>>>problem.. log in as me, I'm locked up till I kill esd..
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>>>weird huh..
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>>Hmmm, interesting, thanks for insisting on this... I would have thought
>>that sound related stuff was low level enough to be common to all users,
>>my mistake then :-/
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>just to be complete with information:
>http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102359 <==where it started
>http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102970 <==Where I'm at now :-/
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I was having this issue a while back... I used dpkg with the purge 
opiton, cleaned out my home directory of the gnome-panel info, and 
reinstalled gnome-panel.  It seemed to work for me.

Mike K.