On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:54 PM, TJ <andrewsfarm@gmail.com> wrote:
This has happened once in a while before, but considerably more often in the last few days.

I have Mageia set up to automatically log in my one and only ordinary user when I boot up. Lately, maybe 25% of the time, when I boot up the volume control is missing from the system tray. Logging out and back in (reboot not needed, but would probably work, too)restores it. I noticed today and yesterday that when this happens the "welcome" music is truncated to one or two notes. I didn't notice one way or the other before yesterday.

It some times happens to me that the CPU info applet is missing. In that case, all I do is kill the panel (pkill gnome-panel). When it is automatically re-launched, everything is OK.