SL 4.5 was recently installed on CPU X. The account for root on X seems t o work fine. Our home directories for users in our group are mounted on a central nfs system on Yserver, so Yserver:/home/user1 etc. This usually works well. Unfortunately, in the installation the account for userZ was initially homed on X, i.e. X:/home/userZ. (And userz already has files on Yserver:/home.) When the account on X was modified to move /home to the server (Yserver:/home/userZ), all hell broke loose. (I did make sure the userid and groupid matched the existing files on the server for userZ.) I can login with a terminal, but the desktop is completely broken, with sort of random non-functioning icons and navigation and a bunch of error messages like: "GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible cause s are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stal e NFS locks due to a system crash. (Details - 1:IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-userZ/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: Permission denied ... " I'm not sure how to enable TCP/IP netwroking for ORBit (and don't know what ORBit even is). I was able to issue commands like "service nfslock start" but that didn't change anything. Any advice? Or should I simply try to start over with the SL installation ? - Ray