I was testing out the new version of panels excited to see what it could do. For previous issues on my site I have had to use the "optimize css" option in "performance" to get css working properly. So with this turned on I deleted a "variation" of a panel to try something different and it broke all the css for that page, in fact for my whole site. My theme was Acquia Maria but even returning to Garland it was broken. I cleared the cache.... nothing. The only thing that would give me css styling back was to turn off "optimize css". When I did this however I get the following error msgs:

* The selected file /tmp/fileLR8KxO could not be uploaded, because the destination sites/default/files/css/css_8afff03b68f6a0a1a7e25fbbcc3dde3e.css is not properly configured.
* The selected file /tmp/filey05Yx0 could not be uploaded, because the destination sites/default/files/css/css_4612187f08af5e0150b7b5b08dc54f1d.css is not properly configured.

Other things I tried:
removing the css files from the directory (hoping for drupal to recreate them) - doesn't work.

I am running drupal 6.13
and panels 6.x-3.0-rc1

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merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

The error you quote indicates that the files directory does not have write permissions, and therefore the system can't set up the customized CSS. You should also see a warning about this on the Drupal status page. This isn't really a problem with panels, this is a misconfiguration on your part.