Thanks Michael. I think I can do that as soon as I learn how to delete from the command line. Bob the GUI user. >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Your Name >Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 3:21 PM >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: FW: gnome startup error > > >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 >> > >> >> > >
