Gconf problems

I think I'm having problems with gconf, found this site that told me to 
email here: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/

Error messages: from evolution:

"Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y5uiMw7RWt: Connection refused)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y5uiMw7RWt: Connection refused)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y5uiMw7RWt: Connection refused)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y5uiMw7RWt: Connection refused)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y5uiMw7RWt: Connection refused)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y5uiMw7RWt: Connection refused)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y5uiMw7RWt: Connection refused)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: 
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-y5uiMw7RWt: Connection refused)"

Exact versions: I'm not sure, running Ubuntu 8.10 and haven't changed 
anything

$ ps jaxwww | grep gconf
21338 21339 21338 21338 ?           -1 S     1000   0:00 
/usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
    1 21341 21335 21335 ?           -1 S     1000   0:01 
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2
29590 29621 29620 29590 pts/1    29620 S+    1000   0:00 grep gconf


Neither gconf-sanity-check-1 nor gconf-sanity-check-2 work

As I said, I am running Ubuntu 8.10.  Any help or a point in the right 
direction would be great.  Thanks for the help
-Ryan Holihan