I am using RedHat 8.0 and inadvertantly shifted the panel to the vertical
mode.  It promptly refused to start up the next time, giving me a squence
of  the following error. "Application "gnome panel" (process xxxx) has
crashed due to fatal error.  (aborted)  If I clear this stop it repeats
with process xxxx up three digits.  Sometimes it will let me in after a
while, mostly it won't.  I can get in as root where the panel is not vertical.

This has just happened on a second computer with the same system in our
office, on which the panel was inadvertently switched to vertical.

Neither of these machines is connected to the net, as a matter of security.

The last entry in the stack trace was 
"Loaded symbols for  /usr/bin/system-tray-applet/libsystem-tray-applet.so
Ox420ae169 in wait4 () from lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb)"

The previous one was:
"Loaded symbols for  /usr/bin/system-tray-applet/libsystem-tray-applet.so...
done."

HELP!

Rex du Pont 
rhett3@comcast.net