gtkhtml-gconf error

[user_1]

hi derek-

gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Failed to contact configuration server (a 
likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server 
(gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from 
two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit)

gnucash 1.8.8 has been running well. recently i did some updates using yast2 
to some of the gnome libraries. gnucash starts but crashes when i try to 
create a report. the previously created reports are not available.

i've run gconf-sanity-check-1, and after manually creating .gconf have had no 
errors in the sanity check.

  "Make sure you run gconfd-1 before starting gnucash."
running this command just hangs the console.

installed:
gtkhtml 1.1.8-27 
gtkhtml 2 3.0.8-151
gtkhtml-devel 3.0.8-151
gtkhtml2-devel 1.1.10-131
libgtkhtml 2.4.1-54
ligtkhtml-devel  2.4.1-54
nautilu2-gtkhtml 0.3.2-712

can you give me a clue on where to go next? thanks

robert