Re: Weird configuration issue.

[John N S Gill <jng europe renre com>]

Thanks Jody 

    export GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS=1

in .bash_profile + a new gnome session did the trick.

John
> From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
>
> If you're running gnumeric on a different machine from your login
> session but with the same homedir, you have to use gconf local locks
> (the default in 2.4) or you have to open up TCP for ORBit. See
> www.gnome.org/projects/gconf