Epiphany won't start

[Bart Kuik <kuik alwaysaccess nl>]

After a 'make install' in meta/gnome-desktop (disabled the gtk-doc stuff
because I couldn't get docbook working) and making the changes to my
startup files, the Epiphany webbrowser won't start.

My OS is Slackware 9.0 on a dual Celeron 333 w/ 512 MB RAM.

I get these messages:

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** (epiphany-bin:1784): CRITICAL **: file ephy-automation.c: line 78
(ephy_automation_new): assertion `factory != NULL' failed
                                                                                
** (epiphany-bin:1784): WARNING **: 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
for information. (Details -  1: IOR file '/home/bart2/.gconfd/lock/ior'
not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2:
IOR file '/home/bart2/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no
gconfd located: No such file or directory)

(This GConf error repeats about 150 times)

** (epiphany-bin:1784): WARNING **: Couldn't create the factory!
/--------------

and finally I get a msgbox with this message:

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Epiphany can't be used now. Running the command "bonobo-slay" from the
console may fix the problem. If not, you can try rebooting the computer
or installing Epiphany again.
 
Bonobo couldn't locate the GNOME_Epiphany_Automation.server.
/------------

I recompiled Epiphany, GConf and ORBit, and couldn't find a way to
enable TCP networking for ORBit with configure-options. I also did a
'which' on some core GNOME-binaries that were running to be sure I used
them from $HOME/garnome/bin instead of /usr/bin (where Dropline GNOME
is). I also did a 'su -c ldconfig'.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Bart