couple of days ago after an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' sequence followed by a reboot.
The nature of the 'belly up' was many complaints about the configuration daemon not being accessible and perhaps NFS locks are messed, orbit's not enabled for tcp/ip, etc. Desktop was bizarre and completely unuseable. I ended up having to /etc/init.d/gdm restart my way out of the mess and used fluxbox and others for awhile.
I tried ripping out all of my .gnome trees but that didn't help.
The fix was to rip out the .gconf and .gconfd trees. I'm not sure which was the magic -- I just ripped them both, afterwhich gnome came back up.
Heitzso
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