Pop-up error when starting system-config-lvm: "IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • starting system-config-lvm gives a pop-up 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 '/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 version 5

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