This bug has been reported on Ubuntu Launchpad as: https://launchpad.net/bugs/554661 Binary package hint: xfce4-panel i've tried to shutdown my system and the panel crashed DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: xfce4-panel 4.6.3-1ubuntu2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686 Architecture: i386 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xfce4-panel ProcCmdline: xfce4-panel --sm-client-id 247fd80f9-ae57-4140-8498-6c9f5654daa3 SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x46219b: cmp %cl,(%edx) PC (0x0046219b) ok source "%cl" ok destination "(%edx)" (0x00000001) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)! SegvReason: writing NULL VMA Signal: 11 StacktraceTop: __strcmp_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strcmp-ssse3.S:77 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 g_hash_table_lookup () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_param_spec_pool_lookup () g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1763): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (Do:1735): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times. (gnome-terminal:2043): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_map_unlock_path: assertion `entry != NULL && entry->lock_count > 0' failed (xfce4-panel:1725): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error (xfce4-panel:1725): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager. Stacktrace attachment: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43457895/Stacktrace.txt
I can't fix this without decent backtrace (from a panel with debugging support).
Btw, looks very much like bug #6213.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6213 ***