Bug#602679: gnome-clock-applet-mechanism: consumes 100% CPU after user logins into gnome on kfreebsd

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Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.30.2-2
Severity: important
File: gnome-clock-applet-mechanism

After logging in to gnome on kfreebsd on amd64, gnome-clock-applet-mechanism consumes 100% CPU

$ ps aux | grep gnome-clock-applet-mechanism | grep R
root      1071 90.0  0.2  38016  3088 ?        R    00:35  34:25 /usr/lib/gnome-panel/gnome-clock-applet-mechanism

gnome was installed using tasksel
login is with gdm3

$ apt-cache policy policykit-1-gnome
policykit-1-gnome:
  Installed: 0.96-2
  Candidate: 0.96-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.96-2 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main kfreebsd-amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ ps -flww -C polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
F S UID        PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ  WCHAN STIME TTY          TIME CMD
0 S tookfbsd  1004   902  0 188   - - 34699      - 00:35 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
0 S 105        834     1  0 188   - - 35089      - 00:33 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about             2.30.2-1         The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-desktop-data      2.30.2-1         Common files for GNOME desktop app
ii  gnome-menus             2.30.3-1         an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data        2.30.2-2         common files for the GNOME Panel
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.24.3-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.24.3-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc0.1                 2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-6         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0        0.24-1           Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0            0.24-1           a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.88-2           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libecal1.2-7            2.30.3-2         Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-13    2.30.3-2         Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8   2.30.3-2         GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.1-5         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17   2.30.2-1         Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2          2.30.3-1         an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-2         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgweather1            2.30.2-1         GWeather shared library
ii  libical0                0.44-3           iCalendar library implementation i
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.18-0.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0      2.30.2-2         library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.3-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0   0.96-3           PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  librsvg2-2              2.26.3-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libwnck22               2.30.4-2         Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.3.0-3        X11 RandR extension library
ii  menu-xdg                0.5              freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii  policykit-1-gnome       0.96-2           GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze1 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-gconf            2.28.1-1         Python bindings for the GConf conf
ii  python-gnome2           2.28.1-1         Python bindings for the GNOME desk

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                      0.13.2-1   easy GNOME menu editing tool
ii  evolution-data-server         2.30.3-2   evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-applets                 2.30.0-3   Various applets for the GNOME pane
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.30.1-2 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.3-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                 2.30.2-2   The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 
ii  gvfs                          1.6.4-2    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  epiphany-browser         2.30.6-1        Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii  evolution                2.30.3-3        groupware suite with mail client a
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termin 2.30.2-1        The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2 2.30.1-1        GNOME user's guide
ii  nautilus                 2.30.1-2        file manager and graphical shell f
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulat 261-1           X terminal emulator
ii  yelp                     2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

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