~/.gconf problem

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

Can someone tell be what to do with /home/me/.gconf?

According to an ls -la:
drw-r-xr-x  4 gene gene   4096 2014-07-22 12:48 .gconf

I own the thing, and I ought to be able to do whatever I want with it, 
including copying a tree from a machine that gedit works on, to a machine 
it won't work on.

I was able to chmod it to 0777 which got rid of the no permission refusals 
to even cd into it, or do an ls -laR on the tree.
So now I may have gained access to this tree, what do I need to do to make 
gedit work in an "ssh -Y alias of FQDN" environment?

It does work if I run it from a console on that machine, but hangs in a 
loop, outputting this at about 3 second intervals from this machines ssh -
Y cli.

gene at lathe:~/.gconf/apps/gedit-2$ gedit
GConf Error: 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: Failed to 
connect to socket /tmp/dbus-c9qBvRFz9a: Connection refused)

The only thing that changes in each of these repeating error splats is the 
/tmp/dbus-hash_number.

That I can't check without physically going to the machine as /home is the 
only NFS share on these machines.  That I can fix, but why should I have 
to?  Call me puzzled.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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