On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jim Seymour wrote: > 1. I can ping the loopback device fine. > > 2. I moved the .gnome* and .gconf* files to another directory. Same > results as before and same message :-( > > Any other ideas? Two other ideas: 1. Check your .xsession-errors file to see if there is a more informative error message from gconfd there. 2. If that doesn't work, try starting gconfd manually, and see if it gives a more useful error message.