Dear Sir, I have accidently deleted my username situated within my home directory. /home/kvan168 is gone. Currently I am receiving the following error message after numerous attempts to rectify the situation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Failed to contact configuration server some possible causes: - Enable TCP/IP Networking for ORBit - Have stale NFS Locks - due to system crash http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ Details: 1: IOR: File '/tmp/gconfd-kvan169/lock/ior' not opened successfully; no gconfd located: Permission denied 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-kvan168/lock/ior' not opened successfully no gconfd lcoated: permission denied Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit; or you have stale NFS lock due to system crash. see: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information Details: 1: IOR: File '/tmp/gconfd-kvan169/lock/ior' not opened successfully; no gconfd located: Permission denied 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-kvan168/lock/ior' not opened successfully no gconfd lcoated: permission denied Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit; or you have stale NFS lock due to system crash. ..................................................................etc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regards, Karl van Niekerk -- Mobile: +64 21 072 8457 Email: kvan027@xxxxxxxxx