Comment 6 for bug 572813

Okay.. so I moved ~/.[a-z]* to a backup folder, then moved .mozilla* .thunderbird .purple, .openoffice.org .bashrc .viminfo .wine .dosboxrc back to ~ and... now polkitd is no longer showing up on top, and my system is now stable again.

So.. Looks like the dis-upgrade should change it's behaviour somewhat and move users's gnome-related .* files to a backup directory, and everything will be peachy.

and no, simply nuking .pulse didn't do the trick.

Still, there is an issue with polkit that needs to be resolved so this isn't an issue in the future. Good news is, there is a fix.