Comment 3 for bug 618160

All the CRITICAL lines in applet.stderr are troubling, but probably unrelated to any problems with the daemon process.

Try doing this to get debugging output from panflute-daemon:
1. Remove the Panflute applet from the panel.
2. Kill any panflute-daemon processes still running.
3. From a terminal window, run "panflute-daemon -d" to start it in debug mode
4. Re-add the applet to the panel
5. Reproduce the bug

If the daemon is indeed crashing, there should be some output on the terminal window that indicates why.