Re: Configuration server couldn't be contacted

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dave Lawrence <dgl integrinautics com> writes: 
> OK, I added the line you suggested to ~/.orbitrc (actually, I created
> ~/.orbitrc with only that line).  I checked to see if any gconfd-2's were
> running (they weren't and I only see gconfd-1 in my path and that was
> also not running).  I then tried to run nautilus again, with the same
> results.  By the way, the 2nd computer that I started X on has been
> turned off for a day, so I am not currently trying to run nautilus on
> two computers simultaneously.  I've even rebooted my computer
> since then... so the problem is in a configuration file in my directory.
> 

Have a look at the suggestions on http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/

Your symptoms aren't quite like anything I've seen before, though.

Havoc