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On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:16:22PM -0400, David Relson wrote: |
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> Recently noticed: error popup when starting firefox, gnumeric, archive |
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> manager, etc: |
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> An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information |
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> for {program}. Some of your configuration settings may not work |
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> properly. |
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> The details window says (in all cases): |
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> Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that |
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> you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS |
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> locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for |
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> information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: |
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> IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0) |
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> gconfd isn't running. Manually starting /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 worked |
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> to start gconfd-2, but hasn't affected the gconf errors. |
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> Possibly relevant: Yesterday openrc was updated from 0.6.0-r1 to 0.6.1-r1. |
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> gconfd |
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> Any suggestions regarding what's actually broken and how to fix it? |
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You may want to try to move and backup your ~/.gconf* stuff. |
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Nicolas Sebrecht |
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