Galeon1 on a Gnome 2.4 desktop

[Steve Coltrin]

oberman at es.net writes:

>Since my upgrade to Gnome2.4 I have been unable to run galeon. I am
>still using galeon1 as I don't like the user interface for galeon2.
>
>When I run galeon, I get:
>GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of
>this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running,
>but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines
>at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit)

Same here.  Apparently the gconf-1 library can't handle gconf-2.4.
I got galeon working again by killing gconfd and _manually_ running
gconfd-1.