Follow Up I deleted and added the Default panel, Empty panel and Application Menu Bar without incident. When I right-click and add the Default openSUSE Panel after a several seconds the hard drive light goes on for several seconds. Dmesg2 is telling me: Look at the time: [707.487852] fuse init (API version 7.23) [748.595815] perf interrupt took too long (2518 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000 [ 2429.957468] plasmashell invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x14280ca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=0, order=0, oom_score_adj=0 [2429.957473] plasmashell cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 [2429.957478] CPU: 1 PID: 2015 Comm: plasmashell Tainted: G O 4.4.76-1-default #1 [2429.957480] Hardware name: System manufacturer P5Q/P5Q, BIOS 2209 03/11/2010 [2429.957483] 0000000000000000 ffffffff81339d97 ffff880221473cd8 0000000000000000 [2429.957484] ffffffff8120b90e 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff811491fa [2429.957486] 0000000000000002 [2429.957488] 0000000001320122 ffff88023ffd21e0 0000000000000206 [2429.957489] Call Trace: [2429.957503] [<ffffffff81019f29>] dump_trace+0x59/0x320 [2429.957507] [<ffffffff8101a2ea>] show_stack_log_lvl+0xfa/0x180 [2429.957511] [<ffffffff8101b091>] show_stack+0x21/0x40 [2429.957514] [<ffffffff81339d97>] dump_stack+0x5c/0x85 [2429.957519] [<ffffffff8120b90e>] dump_header+0x82/0x231 [2429.957524] [<ffffffff811991f2>] oom_kill_process+0x222/0x410 [2429.957531] [<ffffffff811998d8>] out_of_memory+0x4a8/0x4c0 [2429.957538] [<ffffffff8119e128>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xb98/0xbc0 [2429.957543] [<ffffffff811e8af4>] alloc_pages_vma+0xa4/0x220 [2429.957548] [<ffffffff811c51a7>] handle_pte_fault+0xd77/0x1530 [2429.957552] [<ffffffff811c6d7f>] handle_mm_fault+0x2df/0x630 [2429.957556] [<ffffffff8106794f>] __do_page_fault+0x23f/0x4e0 [2429.957561] [<ffffffff81067c1b>] do_page_fault+0x2b/0x70 [2429.957566] [<ffffffff81632808>] page_fault+0x28/0x30 [2429.959385] DWARF2 unwinder stuck at page_fault+0x28/0x30 [2429.959387] Leftover inexact backtrace: Perhaps this a bug in the kernel started by plasmashell invoked oom-killer?