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Description of problem:
Evry 5th to 10th time I start Gnome, the display starts, but the sawfish
symbol at the bottom of the startup display "hangs" for a while before the
destop is displayed.  When the desktop is displayed, I either get a message
that the desktop is not a Gnome desktop (with no panel and no icons), or
the panel at the bottom fills with gmc tasks, and two panel tasks.  In the
second case, no icons are  displayed on the desktop.  The gmc tasks can be
closed, but the two panel icons remain in the task display on the bottom panel.

This is happening on two computers.  Neither of the computers have any of
the same components (or even the same brands of components).

If I do a "shutdown -F now", the problem will often be corrected, otherwise
I seem to have to reinstall.

It is possible to log in using KDE after the problem occurs, but it also
failed once.

The second computer that is having this problem has been running RedHat 7.0
for quite a while with Gnome, and had no problem till I upgraded to 7.1.

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reboot the system
2.Login using Gnome
3.
	

Additional info: