(In reply to comment #0)

In rc2, the panel is now disappearing without the addition of the xfce-menu
plugin. Also, I do not have auto-hide enabled. For the time being I will
downgrade to rc1, and not use the xfce-menu plugin.

-klug

> Hello,
> 
> While using rc1 and rc2 I tired to add the xfce-menu plugin. After its addition,
> the panel either disappeared right away, or disappeared after a short period of
> time. In rc1, I could fix this by simply restarting xfce and removing the
> plugin. However, in rc2 a simple restart would not make the panel reappear. So I
> had to remove the local xfce user conf data, and login getting the same
> configuration as when I first installed xfce.
> 
> When i do not add the xfce-menu plugin the panel remains. I have been using the
> RC1 since its debute, and I noticed the RC2 problem when I upgraded earlier today.
> 
> -klug

hmm, if the panel is crashing without the menu plugin, it's likely related to
another plugin or to the panel itself.

after the panel crashes, please open a terminal, and run 'gdb xfce4-panel'. 
when the '(gdb)' prompt appears, type 'r' and press enter.  when the panel next
crashes, it won't disappear, but will freeze.  go back to the terminal, and it
should have the '(gdb)' prompt again.  type 'bt' and press enter, and paste the
output it gives you here.

if your output contains a lot of '??' near the top, you may need to recompile
xfce4-panel, libxfcegui4, and libxfce4util while passing --enable-debug=yes to
the configure script.

Comment 3 Jasper Huijsmans 2004-12-18 08:05:48 CET

What happens if you start the panel from a terminal?

If it crashes, could you try and get a backtrace with gdb? That may help us find
the cause of the crash.

 $ gdb xfce4-panel
gdb> run
  *crash*
gdb> bt
  <output of backtrace>

reporter: we're not going to be able to move forward on this bug without more
information.

Comment 5 Jasper Huijsmans 2005-01-01 11:12:43 CET

Works for me. Please reopen if you have additinal information.