I think that the problem came from the fact that I accessed the account from X as a root and change the rights on all the files.
Reading the infos I couldn't fix my problem so decided to put this message. Here are some infos. Thanks. (I also posted this message in the nautilisu mailing list. Sorry!)
The directory .gconfd only contains saved_state.
GConf-1.0.9-10
gconfd-2 not installed
returns nothing
returns nothing
does not exist
Redhat 9.0 kernet 2.4.20-8
When I log in, there is a black screen with some error messages I cannot see. To see them I login in in text mode and lauch gcdconf-1 and login in X mode and then I saw:
An error occurred while loading or savinf configuration information for gnome-session. Some of your configuration settings maynot work properly.
Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA BAD_OPERATION:1.0
Here is a snapshot
Mar 13 11:26:31 cscharff gconfd (christelle-2224): starting (version 1.0.9), pid 2224 user 'christelle'
Mar 13 11:28:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Performing periodic cleanup, expiring cache cruft
Mar 13 11:28:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): No log file saving needed in periodic cleanup handler
Mar 13 11:28:31 cscharff gconfd (christelle-2224): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Mar 13 11:28:31 cscharff gconfd (christelle-2224): Exiting
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Using dir /apps/panel/profiles/default/general from cache
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Using dir /schemas/apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/general from cache
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Cached schema value has locale "C", looking for en_US.UTF-8
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): found locale `C'
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): In lookup_with_schema_name returning schema name '/schemas/apps/panel/default_profiles/medium/general/panel_id_list' error 'none'
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Setting /apps/panel/profiles/default/panels/bottom_panel/panel_type in xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Setting /apps/panel/profiles/default/panels/bottom_panel/panel_type in xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Using dir /apps/panel/profiles/default/panels/bottom_panel from cache
Mar 13 11:28:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): /apps/panel/profiles/default/panels/bottom_panel/panel_type was writable in xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf
Mar 13 11:29:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Syncing the dir cache
Mar 13 11:29:38 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Sync completed without errors
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Performing periodic cleanup, expiring cache cruft
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): removing stale client in drop_old_clients
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff last message repeated 9 times
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener gnome-session (4261412867), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener notification-area-applet (419430424), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener nautilus (318767123), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener gnome-panel (201326606), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener rhn-applet (469762074), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener eggcups (285212689), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener gnome-panel (167772172), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener magicdev (100663305), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Dropping dead listener gnome-settings-daemon (4), appears to be nonexistent
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Unloading XML backend module.
Mar 13 11:30:28 cscharff gconfd (root-2042): Exiting
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3003): Bad permissions 777 on dir /home/christelle/.gconfd
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3001): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /home/christelle/.gconfd has a problem, gconfd can't use it
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3007): starting (version 2.2.0), pid 3007 user 'christelle'
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3005): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /home/christelle/.gconfd has a problem, gconfd can't use it
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3009): Bad permissions 777 on dir /home/christelle/.gconfd
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-2997): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /home/christelle/.gconfd has a problem, gconfd can't use it
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3011): starting (version 2.2.0), pid 3011 user 'christelle'
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3003): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /home/christelle/.gconfd has a problem, gconfd can't use it
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3007): Bad permissions 777 on dir /home/christelle/.gconfd
Mar 13 18:15:03 cscharff gconfd (christelle-3013): starting (version 2.2.0), pid 3013 user 'christelle'
Mar 13 18:17:03 cscharff /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth0
Mar 13 18:17:18 cscharff xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic (unreadable)
Mar 13 18:17:18 cscharff xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype (unreadable)
Mar 13 18:20:03 cscharff gconfd (root-2083): starting (version 2.2.0), pid 2083 user 'root'
Mar 13 18:20:03 cscharff gconfd (root-2083): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
Mar 13 18:20:03 cscharff gconfd (root-2083): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Mar 13 18:20:03 cscharff gconfd (root-2083): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2