There is also one more possibility to break gconf: You delete a user with userdel, but 
his gconf-* directory in /tmp/ stays there. Afterwards you useradd him back, but with 
different UID, and you wonder why nothing works any longer.

Don't laugh: I switched from red hat to gentoo, and left my /tmp partition unchanged. 
The other partitions got new filesystems, still the "old" users from my red hat system 
all had problems with gnome. Very bad...

Denis

