Xserver is crashing - netbsd 1.6.1

Hi,
Until yesterday, my Xserver (or rather gnome) was slightly quirky when i started it using startx.
1) As soon as i started X, the gconfd process shot up to about 90%cpu, which I usually killed and then X started up.

But right now, my gconfd is showing the same behavior, but X gives me an error message. I am attaching the X log here.

The netbsd version I am running is 1.6.1

any insight as to what is happening will be great.

thanks,
Radhika