trouble starting gnome-session...

["Josh Emmons (skia)" <j-emmons sjca edu>]

I'm running a FreeBDS 3.1 system with a gnome checked out from cvs this
weekend (4-10).  Everything compiled fine.  I add the line exec
gnome-session to my .xinitrc (it's the only exec in there), and I type
startx. 

The grey-screen-with-x-cursor comes up and then everything dies leaveing
me with a command prompt and this message:

Unable to connect to UNIX socket /tmp/.esd/socket
_X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local
_X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for local
_X11TransOpen: transport open failed for local/ryoga.fuzzfactor.com:0

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

waiting for X server to shut down

I've tried --disable-sound and specifying the --display as localhost:0.0
and other variants and nothing helped.  I tried calling various gnome
programs from a virt-term command line.  nothing.  What am I missing? 

  Josh Emmons...j-emmons@sjca.edu