no panel

[Randy Bush]

> Have you tried logging out of X, and removing ~/.gnome2/session?

yep

> You may have to zero some other files as well.

should i pick them semi-randomly?  but /dev/random is poor on
freebsd. :-)

> You can verify it's your account by creating a dummy account
> (e.g. gnome), and seeing if everything works under it.

created new user.  results are the same, except i have not waited
the full hour to see if the panel really starts.  heck, it's been
ten minutes and i am still looking at the footprint flash.

randy