It hasn't happened much recently. I did run into something like this recently. I tried to take a screenshot, but the panel was not responding. I therefore tried to find the screenshot utility using Nautilus, but before I was able to do so, the panel started to work again and the applets all loaded. Therefore, in this case at least, the problem was that the panel was stalling on something for a very long time (i.e. at least 30 seconds).
I am attaching the .xsession-errors file from that login, though, given the nature of the symptoms, I'm doubtful it will have the required information. One difference now is that my laptop is always plugged in when I boot. When this was happening frequently, my laptop was not plugged in while booting. Thus the problem may be related to the power management applet. ** Attachment added: ".xsession-errors when panel applets did not load" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16678074/xsession-errors-panel-applets-not-loading -- Panel applets sometimes do not load on login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs