[23089] in Athena Bugs
Re: Temporary workaround for panel lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Jul 18 13:03:14 2003
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:03:12 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <20030718170312.GN7118@multics.mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2003
at 13:46:14 -0400 in <200307171746.h6HHkEiB013570@error-messages.mit.edu>:
> I have many reports of users seeing the thin menu panel at the top of
> the screen instead of the Athena panel at the bottom of the screen.
> To remedy this problem, the user can now run:
>
> athrun release fixpanel
>
> and then log out and log back in.
I just had a user for whom this did not quite cut it.
He had an almost normal looking gnome panel at the bottom of the screen,
but it had a red hat icon on the Applications menu and it contained
no athena customizations.
So I ran fixpanel and he logged back in. Then he got the broken panel
everyone else had seen -- top of the screen, etc.
It might have been wiser for me to have rerun fixpanel at this point,
but instead I killed panel, gconfd, and bonobo and ran
/usr/athena/lib/init/gnome*. This produced a panel that looked normal
except it had 3 'www' icons. We right-clicked and and removed the
extra ones and left it at that.
What data would you like me to gather in similar situations?
--jhawk
