diff -urw GConf-1.0.8.orig/gconf/gconf-internals.c GConf-1.0.8/gconf/gconf-internals.c
--- GConf-1.0.8.orig/gconf/gconf-internals.c	2002-01-23 20:42:06.000000000 +0100
+++ GConf-1.0.8/gconf/gconf-internals.c	2003-06-20 02:14:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -3038,7 +3038,9 @@
           goto out;
         }
 
-      if (gconf_file_exists (GCONF_BINDIR"/gconfd-2"))
+      if (gconf_file_exists (GCONF_LIBEXECDIR"/gconfd-2"))
+        argv[0] = g_strconcat (GCONF_LIBEXECDIR, "/gconfd-2", NULL);
+			else if (gconf_file_exists (GCONF_BINDIR"/gconfd-2"))
         argv[0] = g_strconcat (GCONF_BINDIR, "/gconfd-2", NULL);
       else
         argv[0] = g_strconcat (GCONF_BINDIR, "/" GCONFD, NULL);
diff -urw GConf-1.0.8.orig/gconf/Makefile.am GConf-1.0.8/gconf/Makefile.am
--- GConf-1.0.8.orig/gconf/Makefile.am	2001-09-27 20:09:49.000000000 +0200
+++ GConf-1.0.8/gconf/Makefile.am	2003-06-20 02:14:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 	-DGCONF_ETCDIR=\""$(sysconfdir)/gconf"\"			\
 	-DGCONF_BUILDDIR=\""$(top_builddir)"\"				\
 	-DGCONF_BINDIR=\""$(bindir)"\"					\
+	-DGCONF_LIBEXECDIR=\""$(libexecdir)"\"                          \
 	-DGCONF_BACKEND_DIR=\""$(pkglibdir)/$(MAJOR_VERSION)"\"		\
 	-DVERSION=\""$(VERSION)"\"					\
 	-DIID=\""OAFIID:gconfd:19991118"\"				\
diff -urw GConf-1.0.8.orig/gconf/Makefile.in GConf-1.0.8/gconf/Makefile.in
--- GConf-1.0.8.orig/gconf/Makefile.in	2002-02-05 00:37:13.000000000 +0100
+++ GConf-1.0.8/gconf/Makefile.in	2003-06-20 02:16:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
 	-DGCONF_ETCDIR=\""$(sysconfdir)/gconf"\"			\
 	-DGCONF_BUILDDIR=\""$(top_builddir)"\"				\
 	-DGCONF_BINDIR=\""$(bindir)"\"					\
+	-DGCONF_LIBEXECDIR=\""$(libexecdir)"\"					\
 	-DGCONF_BACKEND_DIR=\""$(pkglibdir)/$(MAJOR_VERSION)"\"		\
 	-DVERSION=\""$(VERSION)"\"					\
 	-DIID=\""OAFIID:gconfd:19991118"\"				\