[gentoo-hardened] gnome-shell segfault

[Stan Sander]

I doubt this is specifically a hardened issue, but this is the only list
I'm currently subscribed to and I know there are some very savvy folks
who hang out here.  I've been poking at this issue off and on for a
couple of months (kind of hoping that an update would take care of the
problem), but it hasn't so here are the details. 

I decided to give gnome a try (I've never used anything other than KDE
on this system) on my ~amd64 desktop so I emerged the meta package with
the USE flags of my liking, enabled the gnome USE flag globally and let
the system build away.   My problem is gnome-shell segfaults.  I get a
blue background with vertical stripes that sort of reminds me of a
curtain.  After a few seconds I see the message that something has gone
wrong and I have to log out.  I've done some google searches and tried
all sorts of things that have worked for others with similar symptoms
but none have helped here.  Also many emerge -auvND and revdep-rebuilds
have been done since I first attempted to run gnome.  Mesa has gallium
enabled and eselected since I'm using an ATI video card.  I've toyed
around with the idea of a bug report, but decided to try here first. 

backtrace is attached

Log files of the most recent attempt show the following:

May 12 20:35:08 siren dbus[1897]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.226" (uid=500 pid=15249
comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=1912
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ")
May 12 20:35:08 siren polkitd[1991]: Registered Authentication Agent for
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name
:1.226 [/usr/bin/gnome-shell], object path
/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
May 12 20:35:08 siren dbus[1897]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.226" (uid=500 pid=15249
comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=1912
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ")
May 12 20:35:09 siren gnome-session[15161]: WARNING: Application
'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
May 12 20:35:10 siren dbus[1897]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.230" (uid=500 pid=15358
comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=1912
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ")
May 12 20:35:11 siren polkitd[1991]: Registered Authentication Agent for
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name
:1.230 [/usr/bin/gnome-shell], object path
/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
May 12 20:35:11 siren dbus[1897]: [system] Rejected send message, 2
matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.230" (uid=500 pid=15358
comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=1912
comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ")
May 12 20:35:11 siren gnome-session[15161]: WARNING: Application
'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
May 12 20:35:11 siren gnome-session[15161]: WARNING: App
'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly

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