Gnome problems after Rawhide update

[shmuel siegel]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 11:43 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote:
>   
>> After latest yum update to rawhide (thursday night) I am now getting 
>> these errors when using gedit
>> 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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Server 
>> ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/UNKNOWN:1.0)
>>
>> Other gnome applications have the same error but are less forgiving and 
>> crash. What has changed, and how do I work around?  I am a little bit 
>> afraid to reboot if this is going to render the machine unusable. Advice?
>>     
>
> gconfd isn't running for some reason.
>
>   
Okay, rebooting solved the problem. I hate Windows style problem solving.