Help! gnome-name-server won't start

["Dave Seidel" <dave superluminal com>]

Hope someone can help, because I'm dead in the water and desperate.  I build
Gnome from CVS and have been updating it and running it daily for months.
Since this morning, perhaps coincidentally after updating ORBit, I restarted
X and gmc/panel/etc. (i.e., anything that uses ORBit) no longer works.  I
blew away my gnome-libs and gnome-core sources and checked out the
gnome-xxx-1-0 versions, rebuilt, still no good.  My copy of ORBit doesn't
have any sticky tags; should it?

Example: "panel &" in an Eterm

Output in terminal:
"** WARNING **: Could not get name service!

** ERROR **: file goad.c: line 659 (real_goad_server_activate): assertion
failed: (name_service != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL)
aborting..."

Output in system log:
"Oct 25 14:42:16 ashbless gnome-name-server[14727]: starting
Oct 25 14:42:16 ashbless gnome-name-server[14727]: Receveived signal 11
shutting down.
Oct 25 14:42:16 ashbless gnome-name-server[14727]: Receveived signal 6
shutting down."

Thanks in advance for you help.

- Dave