no panel

[Randy Bush]

> gnome is VERY slow to start and i get no panel.  so i tried
> 
>   portupgrade -fR x11/XFree86-4-clients
>   portupgrade -fr Xft
> 
> which took a little while <grin>.  still no panel.  but it
> does seem to be trying
> 
> randy    44277  0.0  1.8 13828 9464  ??  Is    4:52AM   0:00.25 gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix /gnome-panel-McgeCy/ --sm-client-id 

i lied.  after about an hour, yes literally an hour, the panel comes up.

randy