Why does gnome login fail with gconf error "Failed to contact configuration server" ?

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Issue

  • Why does gnome login fail with gconf error "Failed to contact configuration server" ?
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 '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2:
IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • KVM virtual guest

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