Huge gap between icons in menu bar

[Shpigford]

Lately the menu bar will randomly throw in a huge gap between icons. Initially I thought it was a specific app, but now it's happening with all sorts of random icons there...definitely not the same icon each time.

The icons you see on the left are the ones I launched after the gap appeared.

Restarting my machine seems to be the only solution to removing the gap.

http://share.shpigford.com/images/ganked_menubar-20090611-070248.png

I've also tried trashing the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist pref but that didn't do the trick.

 

[fryke]

It's probably an application you're starting that throws an icon up there that goes wrong. Start your machine. Right after startup, when every bit is loaded, is the problem already there? Start your usual suspects. Your browser, mail app, messenger(s) etc., everything you're usually using, but _one_ at a time. As soon as the menubar goes off, you know that the last thing you've started is quite probably throwing it off...