gnome start-up issues

[J. W. Ballantine]

On a 6-stable system, with this am's cvsup from ports, and MC.com,
I'm getting an unusual startup of the gnome desktop.  It starts,
I get the gnome splash screen and then a bug buddy report from
nautilus that CD/DVD creator has crashed.  After I close that (having
already sent one report), the desktop remains grey, until I go to
System->Preferences->Desktop Background and when the
Desktop Background Preferences window opens, so does the background, but
no icons.

The output of startx follows:

 xauth:  creating new authority file /home/jwb/.serverauth.981
 
 
 X Window System Version 6.9.0
 Release Date: 21 December 2005
 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF] 
 Current Operating System: FreeBSD thunder1.homer.att.com 6.2-PRERELEASE 
FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Tue Dec 12 15:17:06 EST 2006
 jwb at thunder1.homer.att.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THUNDER1 i386
 Build Date: 28 October 2006
         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
         to make sure that you have the latest version.
 Module Loader present
 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
 (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Dec 13 08:59:47 2006
 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
 SESSION_MANAGER=local/thunder1.homer.att.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1003
 
 (nautilus:1049): Liboobs-WARNING **: Failed to connect to socket 
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
 
 Liboobs-CRITICAL **: OobsSession object hasn't connected to the bus, cannot 
register OobsObject
 aborting...
 
 warning: Unable to get location for thread creation breakpoint: generic error
 LibGTop-Server: pid 1067 received eof.
 
 ** (gnome-panel:1048): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: 
No such file or directory
 ** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 
'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name
 
 ** (gnome-panel:1048): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: 
No such file or directory
 /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
 waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE 
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
 
Jim Ballantine