I was experiencing this problem after a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 installation, installing updates and restarting the computer did not have any effect on the problem. The problem was easily fixed thanks to Apteryx's solution:
# chown -R josh /home/josh/.gconf
I was experiencing this problem after a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 installation, installing updates and restarting the computer did not have any effect on the problem. The problem was easily fixed thanks to Apteryx's solution:
# chown -R josh /home/josh/.gconf