Bug#518163: gconf2: Failed to contact configuration server

[peter]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.24.0-7
Severity: important

After updating gconf2 a few days ago on 2 different computers, both 
running testing, when opening root terminal, there is error: An error 
occured while loading or saving configuration information for 
gnome-terminal. Some of your configuration settings may not work 
properly.
Details: "Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes 
are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit; or you have..."
Deleting .gconf/ and .gconfd in root home directory won't help.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                   1.2.12-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2-common              2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                      2.7-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.18.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library
ii  psmisc                     22.6-1        Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  python                     2.5.4-2       An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gconf2 recommends:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.12-1  The GTK+ graphical user interface 

Versions of packages gconf2 suggests:
pn  gconf-defaults-service        <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information