"launchd's env var DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET does not exist"

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Hi, folks:

Sigh, I thought I was past this problem, but it occurred again.
Yesterday, I was using Gnucash happily (gnucash 2.2.8 from MacPorts 
on Mac OS X 10.5.7).

Today, when I start up gnucash, I get a message that GnuCash had an 
error while loading or saving configuration information. GnuCash 
can't find the file I was editing yesterday.

Here's the gist of the error message
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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for 
information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
launchd's env var DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET does not exist)

 From searching about this, I see there have been problems in the 
interaction between dbus, gconf, X11, and launchctl in the last few 
months. I have the latest versions of dbus and gconf, according to 
MacPorts.  I have a hard time following the details.

What's changed?  Yesterday, I tried and perhaps failed to install 
Finance::Quote (see yesterday's email from my to gnucash-users). I 
also had MacPorts upgrade everything which was outdated.  At the end 
of yesterday I shut down my computer. Perhaps this lost some state 
which didn't get restored when I started the computer up today.

Any suggestions about how to proceed?  The only thing I can think of 
at this point is to completely uninstall and reinstall gnucash using 
MacPorts.
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