[gentoo-user] Can't use gnome!

[Michael Sullivan]

I rebooted into Linux a couple of days ago and tried to log into gnome,
and a whole bunch of error messages popped up.  They all said basically
this:

There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/global.
(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-michael/lock/ior' not
opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR
file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd
located: No such file or directory))

I'm typing this from KDE.  I really hate KDE - it's way too flashy, so I'd
like to get back to gnome as soon as possible.  Over the past two days
I've done an emerge -e gnome and rebooted the computer and tried to log in
to gnome, and it still doesn't work.  The file
'/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' is simply not being created.  I did a ps ax
| grep gconf and it returned nothing except the ps request.  Here's my
emerge --info:

camille ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4,
2.6.23-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en fr es"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage-packages/camille"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--human-readable"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats
--timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 alsa apache2 apm arts asterisk audiofile avi bash-completion
berkdb bind-mysql bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 candy cdr cgi cli
cracklib crypt ctype cups dba dbus divx4linux doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread
eds emboss encode evo examples expat f77 ffmpeg flash foomaticdb fortran
ftp gdbm gentoo gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal
iconv imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads ivtv jack jack-tempfs java jikes
joystick jpeg kde kerberos lib libclamav libg++ libwww lirc mad midi
mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mode-owner motif mp3 mpeg mplayer mpm-leader
mudflap mysql mythtv nas nautilus ncurses new-login nls nntp nsplugin
offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl php png
portaudio ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection
ruby samba sasl sdl seamonkey session slp snmp spell spl sql ssl svga
syslog tcl tcltk tcpd test threads tidy truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vanilla vorbis win32codecs
x86 xml xml2 xorg xv zaptel zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug
file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug
rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic
auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file
authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user
autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires
ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info
log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp
proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status
unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text"
LINGUAS="en fr es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix
dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128
radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga
trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG,
LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS

camille ~ # emerge -pv gconf gnome

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-base/gconf-2.20.1  USE="doc -debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-base/gnome-2.20.1  USE="cdr cups dvdr -accessibility
-esd -ldap -mono" 0 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Please help!

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