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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809

Description of problem:
Every time I log in, I get an error dialog which says:

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

...

the last message was:

Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

This happens on several systems I have installed RH 8.0 on.

/usr/libexec/gconfd-2 9 is running

relevant entries from /var/log/messages after logging in as root (I see the
warning when logging in as a user too):

Oct  9 12:34:32 trane gdm(pam_unix)[879]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct  9 12:34:33 trane gconfd (root-1265): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 1265
user 'root'
Oct  9 12:34:33 trane gconfd (root-1265): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at
position 0
Oct  9 12:34:33 trane gconfd (root-1265): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Oct  9 12:34:33 trane gconfd (root-1265): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at
position 2


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in using a gnome session.
2. Error dialog pops up.
3.
	

Additional info: