R: HEADS UP: Summarize the reports of GNOME crashes

[Barbara]

>There have been a few threads which seem to be describing the same
>issue.  That is, users are reporting that when starting GNOME through
>startx that the panel takes a long time to come up, polkit may crash,
>etc.  I want to see if I can tie together some commonalities to help
>make troubleshooting easier.
>
>First, have all users experiencing this installed EVERYTHING from
>packages?  That is, if a user builds all GNOME bits from ports do they
>see the problem?  Are all users seeing slowness or crashes in GNOME
>using startx (or some other non-GDM way of starting GNOME)?  If they use
>GDM does the problem go away?
>
>If a user using packages starts GNOME with GDM, does the problem go away?
>
>Joe
>

If this can helps...
I've built everything from ports.
In the last couple of weeks, I had the the slow starting panel also logging in 
with gdm, but it happened only twice.
That seems happening regularly using startx and sometimes all that applet are 
loaded, sometimes they are not.

I've found polkit-gnome-authen.core in /var/gdm, but it seems that this is 
dumped only on logoff when using gdm.
For what I can see, this is not happening running startx.

This is maybe not related to the problem, but trying to look in polkit-gnome-
authorization policies, it crashed when I checked "Show authorizations from all 
users" on a policy where an explicit authorization was granted to a user that 
in the meanwhile has been deleted from the system.