[launchd-dev] No pboard server?

[Dave Dribin]

Hi all,

This is sort of a last ditch effort before I re-install....  A few  
hours ago, copy and paste stopped working on my MBP (running 10.5.4).   
Sure enough pboard was dead.  I decided to reboot, just in case  
anything else got messed up.  Now it will not start at all.  Running  
"launchctl list" does not show it, and if I try and explicitly list  
it, I get the following error message:

   % launchctl list com.apple.pboard
   launch_msg(): Socket is not connected

I get the same error message if I try to load com.apple.pboard.plist.   
I've also noticed that Apache and ssh-agent also are no longer  
starting, either, so something is definitely wonky with some of the  
system daemons.  There are probably other critical daemons not  
starting, I imagine, too.

Note: there's plenty of free disk space (32 GB).  Any other idea? I'm  
nearly ready to re-install at this point.

Thanks,

-Dave