I use a Centos 4 (Clone of Redhat Linux Enterprise AS4) system. I login remotely with Xbrowser of Xmanager2 by root. I use GNOME. I have done well for one year. Today I login by root then I get following error following dialogues

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An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-session. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-panel. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-settings-daemon. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for Print Notifier. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

GConf error: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDLmg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

All further errors shown only on terminal.

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However, if I login by a normal users then it is all right. Also, I login by root and KDE then it is OK. Please tell me the solution.

Thank you

Check the permissions on your ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome2 directories and config files.

Also... why on earth are you logging into X as root? This has a decent risk for inadvertant damage to system files.

I checked ~/.gnome, ~/.gnome2, ~/.gnome2_private, ~/.gconf, and ~/.gconfd.
[root@server119 ~]# ls -lad .g*
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 4 2005 .gaim
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jul 27 07:36 .gconf
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 27 08:01 .gconfd
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 4 2005 .gftp
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Feb 15 15:59 .gimp-2.0
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 May 8 2005 .gnome
drwx------ 8 root root 4096 Sep 6 2005 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 8 2005 .gnome2_private
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 8 2005 .gstreamer-0.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120 Feb 22 2005 .gtkrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128 Jul 25 10:46 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2

I surmise that it is OK.
How can I recover them from good orginal configuration files of GNOME of root.

You could just copy in the files from a known good backup.

I don't have a backup of GNOME configuration for root. Someone tole me to delete ~/.gn* and /tmp/.c* and I tried it but I still have the same problem