[PLUG] gnome panel and glibc

[Keith Lofstrom]

Early wednesday morning April 6, yum update loaded glibc-2.5-58. 
This seems to be what broke gnome-panel on my Scientific Linux 5.4
systems, and is affecting other SL users elsewhere.  If I restart
X, the gnome panel goes away, and sometimes gnome hangs (though
ssh access still works).

While this distro is based on some 3 year old components, the 
panel problem also may be affecting Ubuntu 11.10 alpha:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/754197

I'm still learning more about this.  Until then, I suggest folks
don't logout/login (which restarts X) until they are sure they
are not affected, or have time to debug it.

Keith

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