Why is gconfd starting twice?

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-08-15, Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On my recent Ubuntu installation I keep seeing this error
>
>   gconfd (adam-2543): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed
>   to lock '/tmp/gconfd-adam/lock/ior': probably another process has
>   the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking
>   misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>
> in my logcheck output from every X login and figured out that for some
> reason gconfd is trying to start twice every time I log in:
...
> Any suggestions on debugging it?  
>
> Or should I just ignore it?

I don't know why, but installing the gconf package (in addition to
gconf2, which I already had) has made this error go away!