In your home directory remove the .gconf and .gconf2 folders. Then try again. -Michael > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > > --
