Slow startup of Gnome - error from "gnome-keyring-daemon"

[Ewald Jenisch]

Hi,

After installing a new system with 7.1 from scratch, upgrading
kernel/system as well as ports to the current version I configured
X-win (X -configure) and finally fired up gnome.

First of all, Gnome takes a LOT of time to get up - it takes almost 5
minutes (!) till I get the icons for "Computer", "Trash" and the icon
for my "home" folder displayed.

In /var/log/messages I see tons of the following messages:

Jan 14 16:44:17 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: error connecting to D-BUS system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Jan 14 16:44:17 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: Scheduling hal init retry
Jan 14 16:44:47 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: error connecting to D-BUS system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Jan 14 16:44:47 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: Scheduling hal init retry
Jan 14 16:45:17 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: error connecting to D-BUS system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Jan 14 16:45:17 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: Scheduling hal init retry
Jan 14 16:45:47 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: error connecting to D-BUS system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Jan 14 16:45:47 mybox gnome-keyring-daemon[977]: Scheduling hal init retry


I'm pretty sure, both symtoms, i.e. slow startup of gnome and these
error messages have something to do with each other...

So here are my questions:

o) Has anybody out there seen similar problems

o) Anything that can be done against this?

BTW, I'm running 7.1 with latest kernel & ports (see above) - 64bit
(AMD64) architecture

Thanks much in advance for any clue,
-ewald