Dead gnome panel

[Dieter Schicker]

Hi,

today after gdm login I was presented with two empty gnome panels at the
top and at the bottom, only the workspace switcher and the waste basket
showed up, the former didn't work the later did. There was also no right
mouse button functionality on the panels so I could not reinstall the
menu and the other icons. The icons on the desktop worked as expected.
My home directory is nfs mounted but nfs works just fine.

I know that one "solution" is to remove all the .gconf* and .gnome*
directories but - as you can imagine - I don't like that solution very
much because you lose all your nifty tweakings and settings! ;-)

Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance
Dieter