Well i guess it all started when i changed the file permissions of my home directory, to 777. Now when ever i try to run gnome.... or even a gnome program from KDE, like Totem, gnomemeeting etc , it gives the following error message:
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information.
(Details -
1: IOR file '/home/fadain/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory
2: IOR file '/home/fadain/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
and then the application crashes. What should i do? What do file permissions have to do with this error?
(I am using Mandrake 9.2, Gnome 2)