Panel does not load

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kolumbs

After a fresh installation of xfce4 from ports, i get a rather annoying problem on panel. It does not show anything and when I try to go to Settings-Panel, I get error message after a minute:

Code: 
Failed to show the preferences dialog
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I found someone else had the same problem here: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7350

Everything else except panel works.
 
process is not killable?!

xfce4-panel is already running.

So when I type as su ps aux I get following PID information:

Code: 
1630 v0  S    0:00.22 xfwm4
1634 v0  I    0:00.23 xfce4-panel
1636 v0  I    0:00.04 Thunar --daemon (thunar)

and when I try kill 9 1634 nothing happens.
 
This sounds familiar, but I can't recall how to fix it. Check the settings in Settings/Session and Startup.
 
Continuing about the Panel problem. I created a new test user and when I did not load the default panel but choo[/de]se to create from an empty panel, everything works ok.

So this is something related to the default panel loading for the first time when creating a user profile. Does this gives any ideas as to what is the problem?
 
kolumbs said:
this one was mistypo from me kill -9 1634 should have been used instead to kill this process
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But don't use -9 routinely, always try less severe levels first. pkill xfce4-panel makes it easier.
 
This thread can be closed until someone else does not hit this problem. I believe the issue was related that you must not kill first loading of the session in the middle, otherwise that session is corrupted. I created a new session and I have no more issues. Though I can not verify that my assumptions are correct unless someone else hits the same problem or it repeats.
 
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