I had the exact same thing happen to me today, I can confirm this. I reported it as bug 545521. Completely took down the system like I have never seen before, might have something to do with hot-plugging dual monitors. (I'm running Lucid beta1 by the way).
-- gnome-panel consuming 100% of CPU and driving up memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479826 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
