I sent this message a couple of times over the weekend and got no response. Any help available today? > >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 >
