thank you for the work on that. the valgrind log is not useful. You can use "gnome-session-remove gnome-panel" then run valgrind
-- [apport] gnome-panel crashed with SIGSEGV in _int_malloc() https://launchpad.net/bugs/90383 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs