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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome!
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:41:28
Message-Id: 479A32B7.3040502@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome! by Michael Sullivan
1 Michael Sullivan ha scritto:
2 > I rebooted into Linux a couple of days ago and tried to log into gnome,
3 > and a whole bunch of error messages popped up. They all said basically
4 > this:
5 >
6 > There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/global.
7 > (Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you
8 > need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks
9 > due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for
10 > information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not
11 > opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR
12 > file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd
13 > located: No such file or directory))
14
15 I'm a KDE user, so take my advice with a grain of salt. But I googled a
16 bit, and you're not alone (even if your error is obscure). Unfortunately
17 I failed to find a clear cut solution.
18
19 However, you may try to start gnome with another user, or erase (move)
20 your .gnome .gconf etc. and retry. It seems something in your
21 configuration files is weird.
22
23 m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome! [SOLVED] Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>