Gnome lower panel issue

[Derrick Ryalls]

Greetings,

New subscriber but I did a search for this issue and came up blank.  I
recently posted this on questions:

I just did the compile for gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 6 and so far most
everything seems to work except the lower panel does not display the current
running programs or the other virtual desktops.  I can alt-tab to the other
programs in the same virtual terminal, and can use cntrl-alt (left/right) to
get to the other terminals, but none show the normal bar at the bottom.  The
top bar looks normal (has normal menus, clock, etc).  I hope this is just
dependancy that needs to be rebuilt, but am unsure of which one do try.

My install was something like this:

Install Freebsd 6 using 6.0 release disc burned last month.
Install basic packages via sysinstall
At this point I tried portupgrade -NPPR x11/gnome2
After many weird issue on out of date dependancies, I used the
gnome2.12update script to fix the issues.
After update script was finished, I executed a normal install: cd
x11/gnome2; make install clean

The final install did complete successfully and gnome has been running, but
the bottom panel isn't working.

Does anyone have a clue about what I need to redo to get the lower panel
working?  I have considered scrapping 2.12 and going to 2.10 instead (from
install CD), but that seems a bit extreme, I am hoping there is a quick fix
for this.

Thanks in advance for any clues.