I believe that the problem I have is very common but anyhow I can't find anyone that has a working solution for it, so here it comes.

Gnome starts fine, in the same way as it always have, but when I try to execute any program via the desktop-panel I get.

Code:
Gnome-panel has quit unexpectedly
and the panel reloads.

This is a very annoying problem and I can't figure out what is wrong.

Here is what happened..

I wanted to have some kind of desktop magnifier so I googled my way to find that gnopernicus might help me with that.

I went
Code:
sudo apt-get install gnopernicus
and everything went fine. Quickly I thought that the magnifier wasn't working in the way I was hoping it would so I decided to remove it.

Code:
sudo apt-get remove gnopernicus
and after that, my problem with the gnome-panel started to occur.

I have tried (from a forum found via google) to remove my .recently-used file so I did

Code:
sudo rm -R ~/.recently-used
but that didn't change anything. I also made sure to remove my root file (.recently-used) and my userfile (.recently-used) (not really sure how deleting the root file would help since I never use gnome as root)

I found out from http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel.../msg00015.html that:

Code:
Package: libgnomevfs2-0 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
  314484 [        ] [UE] Error on login: 'The Application "gnome-panel" has quit unexpectedly'
so I thought, ok I need that library, and went

Code:
sudo apt-get install libgnomevfs2-0
but that didn't help either. Tried to remove everything in /tmp/

Code:
sudo rm -r /tmp/*
if there was something "cached" or so (not sure how debian/linux uses the /tmp/ dir but still..) but that didn't change anything either.

So as you might understand, I don't know what to do now :S and would appreciate any help or tips I can get on this.

I guess that reinstalling gnome won't help since gnome works perfectly except for this, I think it's some kind of library problem??

I'm running gnome on a Debian Etch system.

Thanks in advance!

edit: I have noticed that this problem only occurs when I try to start an application via the command window (ALT+F2). The problem doesn't come up when I start applications from under the gnome menu. No one knows how to fix this??