Gnome hangs on startup, what to do??

[Peter Andersson <peter dark-past mine nu>]

I have just installed several pre compiled gnome packages on an sgi indy
running irix 6.2. Everything seems to work up to the "midnight
manager", gnome core and gnome control panel installation . I can
run applications utilizing gnome gtk and some gnome core applications
work but, for example, when i run gnome help (as root) the whole
"gnome-help-browser" hangs and refuse to do anything, i can't
even click the buttons on the browser. I have used other programs using
gtk so i (think) i know that this is not the problem. Although i do get
one error message (like "getpwuid_r() failed due tofunction not
implemented)". Other files that just won't start are panel and gnome
midnight commander.

Please help me because  i just dont know how to solve this problem
and i would really like to use gnome. (The reason that i have used
pre-compiled binaries is that i can't get gnome to compile under irix and
i suppose that i have to do substantial changes to get it to compile
under (since irix developers doesn't seem to find it nesessary to be
compatible.)

These are the gnome packages i have installed

Audiofile 
Esound
Gnome Core
Gnome Control Center
Gnome Application Library
GDK
GLIB
Gnome aplets
gnome audio
gnome libs
gnome media
gnome print 
gnome utils
gtk+
gtk engines
gtop
imlib
lib http
libglade
libgtop
Midnight Commander
Rep gtk

Any help are very appreciated because i am quite lost here.

Thanks

Peter