Bug#338828: Confirmed.

[N VZ]

I installed a fresh sarge i386 system from netinst image I burned from
cdimage.debian.org <http://cdimage.debian.org> today and I too experienced
this bug when logging into gnome after choosing "desktop system" in tasksel.
I am _not_ using xorg. I am using official sarge sources.

deb http://techweb.rfa.org/debian/ stable main

I had this problem of errors that panel applets Show Desktop, Window List,
and Workspace Switcher all died unexpectedly on login, but they run fine
when restarted.

gnome-panel 2.8.3-1

killall gnome-panel causes it to be restarted by the session manager without
recreating the problem, but it happens every time on login. I have no idea
about the cause nor do I have the time at the moment to think about where to
begin tracking it down since its hard to trace when it only screws up when
logging in.
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