(Breezy) GNOME hangs on start -- often fixed by deleting /tmp

[Stephen R Laniel]

When I boot GNOME, quite often it hangs before the panels
have shown up. Sometimes it hangs when there's nothing but a
mouse cursor on the screen, or sometimes it goes to the next
step and hangs when the little box in the middle of the
screen -- the one which displays the programs that launch
when my session starts -- appears. When the little box
appears and GNOME hangs, the applications never show up in
the box.

For some reason I've found that deleting /tmp and recreating
it often works -- maybe 'always works,' in fact. I'm not
sure what I'm deleting that helps things out, because I've
tried going through and deleting most of the subdirectories
in there one by one, to no avail. If I figure that out, I'll
reply to this thread.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? Any idea what causes it?
It's fairly recent behavior on my machine, and I apt-get
upgrade every day.

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
steve at laniels.org
+(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/
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