Re: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome! [SOLVED]
On Freitag, 25. Januar 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 20:04 +0100, b.n. wrote: I fixed it. Somehow some permissions on some directories on /tmp got changed. I changed them back, and it seems to be back to normal now... which will only help you until the next reboot since the latest baselayout nukes everything in /tmp on boot. Maybe /tmp itself has not the right permissions? ls -lh / would be nice. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome! [SOLVED]
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 20:04 +0100, b.n. wrote: Michael Sullivan ha scritto: I rebooted into Linux a couple of days ago and tried to log into gnome, and a whole bunch of error messages popped up. They all said basically this: There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/global. (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: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)) I'm a KDE user, so take my advice with a grain of salt. But I googled a bit, and you're not alone (even if your error is obscure). Unfortunately I failed to find a clear cut solution. However, you may try to start gnome with another user, or erase (move) your .gnome .gconf etc. and retry. It seems something in your configuration files is weird. m. I fixed it. Somehow some permissions on some directories on /tmp got changed. I changed them back, and it seems to be back to normal now... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome!
Michael Sullivan ha scritto: I rebooted into Linux a couple of days ago and tried to log into gnome, and a whole bunch of error messages popped up. They all said basically this: There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/global. (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: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)) I'm a KDE user, so take my advice with a grain of salt. But I googled a bit, and you're not alone (even if your error is obscure). Unfortunately I failed to find a clear cut solution. However, you may try to start gnome with another user, or erase (move) your .gnome .gconf etc. and retry. It seems something in your configuration files is weird. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list