Comment 1 for bug 858478

I *think* this may have been caused by a change to the startup phase Gnome15 is in.

There are 5 phases (from http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession) :-

Initialization (started first)
WindowManager
Panel
Desktop
Applications (started last)

Early on in the 0.7.x release (0.7.3 maybe), I changed this from "Applications" to "Initialization" to try and fix a problem where g15-indicator would sometimes get the status wrong (because it was starting at the same time as g15-desktop-service).

In 0.7.6, I changed this again to "WindowManager" instead, in an attempt to get rid of this very problem. So, is it any better now in 0.7.6?

If not, you could try manually changing the startup phase by editing /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome15.desktop, and changing the "X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase" field. You first try "Panel", then "Desktop", then "Applications". If you get as far as "Applications" before it starts working properly, then I will have to find another solution to the g15-indicator problem.

Assuming of course this is the actual cause :)