ah well. It did not take long for me to get fed up with the response times with Valgrind running.
I could not reproduce it, but the Valgrind log does report on unitialised buffers and lost memory. On the chance this might help, I will attach it here. ** Attachment added: "valgrind log for a short gnome-panel run" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5963596/valgrind-gnome-panel.log.10736 -- [apport] gnome-panel crashed with SIGSEGV in ??() https://launchpad.net/bugs/81723 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs