Gnome problems after Rawhide update

Fri Oct 30 19:43:21 UTC 2009

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.

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