Unfortunately, this is not the problem. I tried it. It didn't work. I  
am going to once again try to upgrade my system. I hope that will fix  
this problem.

Thanks Anyway:

Andrew Stallard

Quoting "Brunner, Brian T." <[log in to unmask]>:

>
> Chmod 1777 /tmp (gotta turn on the sticky bit)
> I learned this DOZENS of times.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Andrew Stallard
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:02 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: gcondf error--nautilus has gone haywire!
>
> Hello, I ran into this problem today. Nautilus crashed and now I have no
> access to the taskbar, my external hard drive, or any applications
> unless  I click an icon in the folder. I also get several error messages
> just to st art when I log on, and they continue to appear every time I
> do anything. This
>
> happens whether I log on as root or a regular user.
>
> Now these error messages state:
>
> ERROR: GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some
> possible
>
> causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
> ha ve stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf for information. (Details-1 IOR file
> '/tmp/gcondf-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gcondf located.
> N o such file or directory. Details-2 IOR file
> '/tmp/gcondf-root/lock/ior' no t opened successfully, no gcondf located.
> No such file or directory.)
>
> This is repeated a few times. I found the /tmp/gcondf-root directory but
> there was nothing inside of it. How did the subdirectories just
> disappear , or is that what really happened? Now, I did expand the
> permissions on the
>
> entire tmp directory to rwx for all becuase I was moving some junk out
> of
>
> it, but I did not touch the aforementioned directories at all.
> Neverthele ss, could expanding the permissions have something to do with
> this? I am real ly at a loss for this one, and the situation is
> desperate!
>
> Thank You for Responding:
>
> Andrew Stallard
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