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