Recent rawhide instability

[Jay Cliburn]

I'm seeing unstable behavior on my rawhide systems (x86_64) lately, pretty much 
since dbus started segfaulting on October 25 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212303).  This was fixed, 
but I've had this nebulous feeling of instability ever since.

Has anyone else noticed it?  Here are some problems on my systems.

* Thunderbird just coredumped -- three times in a row.  I have core files.  This 
problem is actually what prompted me to send this message.  No bz yet; it just 
now started happening.

* gnome-power-manager crashes and takes hald with it. 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214090

* CDs and DVDs no longer automount.  This used to work flawlessly.  I can mount 
them manually, but they no longer show up on my desktop like they used to.  (I 
use gnome/nautilus, and no compiz.)  No bz yet.

* When I insert a USB pendrive, hald segfaults.  I can't find a core file.  How 
do I generate a backtrace for this?  No bz yet.

usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
   Vendor: LEXAR     Model: JUMPDRIVE SPORT   Rev: 1000
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdb: 2030592 512-byte hdwr sectors (1040 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 2030592 512-byte hdwr sectors (1040 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
  sdb: sdb1
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
hald[1960]: segfault at 0000000000000021 rip 00000039fec74e50 rsp 
00007fff515e3c08 error 4