Recently noticed: error popup when starting firefox, gnumeric, archive manager, etc:
An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for {program}. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. The details window says (in all cases): 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/COMM_FAILURE:1.0) gconfd isn't running. Manually starting /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 worked to start gconfd-2, but hasn't affected the gconf errors. Possibly relevant: Yesterday openrc was updated from 0.6.0-r1 to 0.6.1-r1. gconfd Any suggestions regarding what's actually broken and how to fix it? Thanks. David