Thanks for the reply Jeremy. I haven't done any corrective action yet. I need some expert tutelage before playing on the command line. This is a straight upgrade from RH8 to RH9 without any addons or tweaking. I have done all the RH up2dates. Could you give me the commands to delete the .gconfd file and do I just do a reinstall of Gnome from the CD? Just assume I'm Sgt Schultz and "I know nothing". TIA Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of >Jeremy West >Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 2:58 PM >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: gnome startup error > > >Have you deleted your ~/.gconfd file, and >reinstalled gconf? Is this a >vanilla install, and if not, then what addon's or >tweaking have you >done? > >Jeremy West >Office of Information Technology >Communications Assistant > > >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] >On Behalf Of Bob Mclaughlin >Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:49 PM >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: FW: gnome startup error > > >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 >> > >
