Comment 12 for bug 711378

I am affected by this bug and also by bug 716714, and I do not think bug 716714 is a duplicate of this bug. These bugs began to affect me at different times, and are fundamentally different in their effects--in this bug, gnome-panel runs (and stays running) but the panel not shown, whereas in bug 716714, the panels are shown but some panel applets are not able to run.