Gee, is my BO that bad. I sent the following yesterday and got zero replies. Do I just reinstall or what? >When I give the startx command, Gnome comes up partly with >gibberish and hangs. Ctrl-Alt F1 gives me a message that >says: (nautilus:1439): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Failed >to contact configuration server; some possible causes are >that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you >have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See >http://gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. > (Details - 1: IOR file 'home/bob/.gconfd/lock/ior' not >opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or >directory. > >The gnome.org site doesn't seem to address corrective >actions for this. I may not know what they mean by NFS. >I'm running Ext3 file system. Can anyone offer some >guidance? > >Bob McLaughlin >
