Desperate for Help

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Ernie,

This this help:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Gnucash_fails_to_start_with_Failed_to_contact_configurati
on_server

I copied this from a bug report into the Windows wiki last week. It talks about the same error 
message.

Geert

On Friday 25 October 2013 17:13:56 ernieinfo wrote:
> Latest stable release of GnuCash, Windows 7 x64. I cannot get my
> database to open (error message below). I have no idea how to clear
> this problem. Desperate! Please HELP................
> 
> 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
> for information. (Details -  2: IOR file
> 'c:\windows\temp\gconfd-virtualernie/lock/ior' not opened
> successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
> 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
> for information. (Details -  2: IOR file
> 'c:\windows\temp\gconfd-virtualernie/lock/ior' not opened
> successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
> 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
> for information. (Details -  2: IOR file
> 'c:\windows\temp\gconfd-virtualernie/lock/ior' not opened
> successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
> 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
> for information. (Details -  2: IOR file
> 'c:\windows\temp\gconfd-virtualernie/lock/ior' not opened
> successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
> 
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