Gnome-desktop fails

[brian]

well, I fixed it, and gnome-desktop built today. the problem was I had 
run this silly little thing

http://xanana.ucsc.edu/xtal/Xterminator/

to set up display variables for launching x11 progs from the command 
line, and it does a little overkill, adding stuff to .bashrc, .kshrc, 
.cshrc, and .bash_profile that prints output without checking for 
interactivity.  once I silenced this stuff all was well.