Oh God I've killed my panel.

["Michael Rogers" <bastard_machine hotmail com>]

After editing my system menu as root (I was changing the icon for the 
Run Program... menu item), I found that the whole menu had disappeared 
from the "foot" launcher. Then the panel disappeared. Not unusual for 
the panel to crash when using the Menu Editor, I thought, so I 
Ctrl-Alt-Backspaced out of X and started it again. No panel. When I 
tried running another panel from a terminal, it either core dumped 
straight away or came up with the "there's another panel running, run 
anyway?" message and then core dumped when I hit Yes. I removed 
gnome-session from my .xinitrc and replaced it with wm2, and deleted my 
~/.gnome/session file. I started X again, but still couldn't get the 
panel to run. I tried logging in as a normal user and running either 
gnome-session or wm2, but the panel still core dumped. I'm guessing 
there's a shared config file somewhere which has been corrupted, but I 
can't find anything useful. I can get GNOME to start the default 
session, and gmc starts fine, but the panel doesn't come up. Has anyone 
seen this before or do I have to reinstall gnome-core?

Oh, while I'm on the subject of changing menu icons, is there any way to 
select "no icon" for an item which has once had an icon?

 - Michael Rogers
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