Desperate for Help

[ernieinfo]

Thanks for the suggestion Geert. It did not solve the problem for me. 
Still hoping for a simple solution. Regards, Ernie

On 10/26/2013 3:20 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> Hi Ernie,
>
> This this help:
>
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Gnucash_fails_to_start_with_Failed_to_contact_configuration_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:
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> > 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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