Metacity fails after updates

[Kevin Oberman]

I am no longer able to start Gnome on my desktop. I updated  lot of the
ports while I was working remotely for a few months. When I got back,
metacity failed to start. My apps start and look OK, but with no window
manager, it's pretty useless.

When it tries to start, metacity sends out the following:
metacity:ERROR:ui/ui.c:752:meta-_ui_get_default_icon: assertion failed:
(default_icon)
LibGTop-Server: pid 5978 received eof.

This repeats every few seconds, ad infinitum.

I have re-built metacity and all of its dependencies with no improvement
and i am baffled.

I have a full Gnome installation running on FreeBSD 9.1-Stable (r249034).
All ports are up-to-date. Any ideas on where to look or what to kick? It
works fine on my other systems.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com