Description of problem:

After a reboot first login in gdm works fine (/tmp is tmpfs-ed and cleaned-up on
reboot)
If the user then closes its session the next time he'll try to log in he'll be
hit with a "There was an error starting the GNOME settings ..." popup and lots
of Gnome panel applets will fail with OAF errors

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Been in Rawhide for about a month - since I have not the faintest idea where to
look for broken stuff I was just hoping it would go away

How reproducible:

Always - reproduced on 3 different boxes all updated to latest rawhide from an
original Severn (1 I think) install

/var/log/messages contains :

xinetd[7153]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected

maybe it's related, maybe not