Comment 12 for bug 139368

It is not working now, just it happens every now and then. And I've seen this happen on other people's computers. It's not a local issue. I recognize this when I see a little "man" and a door in place of the red "exit" button in the upper right corner of the gnome desktop. Usually, logging out and in makes it work, but it will not make new users feel all right.

Once, it also happened that logging out and in or rebooting didn't help. Then, I had to remove files in /tmp. But the bug I am reporting is about something happening at log in, so that gnome says there is no gconfd, even though gconfd, dbus and friends are running (I reported output of "ps aux").

Hope this clarifies the issue.