gconf stops samba and cups

[cmehil <talcmehl frontiernet net>]

Sorry I am kind of new at linux but the forums at linux have not helped 
me in the last 2 weeks looking for help.
[andrew cmehil ~]$ ps jaxwww | grep gconf
7630  7760  7759  7630 pts/1     7759 R+    1000   0:00 grep gconf
[andrew cmehil ~]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome
/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager:
  workspace_names = (no value set)
  current = (no value set)
  default = (no value set)
  number_of_workspaces = (no value set)
[andrew cmehil ~]$ smbclient -L localhost -U%
Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
user log is
Jul 12 18:10:46 gconfd (andrew-7584): starting (version 2.20.1), pid 
7584 user 'andrew'
Jul 12 18:10:46 gconfd (andrew-7584): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 0
Jul 12 18:10:46 gconfd (andrew-7584): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/home/andrew/.gconf" to a writable configuration source 
at position 1
Jul 12 18:10:46 gconfd (andrew-7584): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 2
Jul 12 18:18:51 gconfd (andrew-7584): Exiting
I am running Archlinux i686 version
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory is empty
~home/gconf/apps and /schema %gconf.xml are empty 0kb
I think that when I started configuring samba either I did not put in 
the right information (or i did not put anything where I should have) 
because before I started cups was working. I cannot find an example of 
what gconf.xml.mandatory and gconf/2/paths should look like. Thanks for 
helping and teaching.
Andrew Cmehil