gconf gconf2 problem with Sarge

[Glen Snyder <gsnyder@rice.edu>]

I've had a few hiccups lately with Sarge (on a linux box named tracer),
that seem to be related to gconf and gconf2 which I first noticed when
trying to start Galeon.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Glen

Both gconf processes seem to be running:

tracer:/home/glen# ps jaxwww | grep gconf
    1   431   402   402 ?           -1 S     1000   0:01
/usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 13
 2895  2966  2965  2792 ttyp0     2965 R        0   0:00 grep gconf


Here's whatI get in /var/log/messages/

Nov 29 11:22:57 tracer gconfd (glen-2764): starting (version 2.4.0.1),
pid 2764 user 'glen'
Nov 29 11:22:57 tracer gconfd (glen-2764): Failed to get lock for
daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gconfd-glen/lock/ior': probably
another process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file
locking misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable)
Nov 29 11:29:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): starting (version 2.4.0.1),
pid 2866 user 'root'
Nov 29 11:29:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config
source at position 0
Nov 29 11:29:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Nov 29 11:29:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config
source at position 2
Nov 29 11:35:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): GConf server is not in use,
shutting down.

Also, if I try: "tracer:/home/glen# gconftool-1 --shutdown" I get:
Shutdown error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause
of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd)
running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two
machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit)