Failed to connect to the FAM server: (null)

[Kiffin Gish <kiffin gish planet nl>]

I just upgraded from Gnome 2.14 to 2.16 (FreeBSD 6.1). This seemed to go
alright in general, except that now the Applications menu is empty, as
well as some of the System items.

If I try and run gnome control center for example, I get the following
error:

** (gnome-control-center:6338): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the FAM
server: (null)

Can someone help me please?

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Kiffin Gish <kiffin gish planet nl>