Le ven 10/10/2003 � 15:06, FACORAT Fabrice a �crit :
> I've got this problem severals times, sometimes it disappears magically,
> sometimes i have to delete all my gnome settings ( ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd,
> ~/.gnome ).
>
> Situation :
> - current cooker ( 2.4.22-10mdk, GConf-1.0.9-11mdk, GConf2-2.4.0.1-1mdk,
> nfs-utils-clients-1.0.5-1mdk, kdebase-3.1.92-2mdk, metacity-2.6.1-1mdk )
> - home on a NFS share ( vers=3, tcp, rsize=8192, wsize=8192, nosuid,
> soft, intr, timeo=600 )
> - NFS server = mdk 9.1 + soft RAID1 ( ext3 partition )
>
> One more time again, I'm facing this "Gnome n'a pu d�marrer le d�mon de
> pr�f�rence. Pour l'instant il sera d�sactiv� et vous n'aurez pas acc�s
> aux th�mes, sons ... ) -> Gnome was unable to launch gnome preferences
> daemon.
> So i don't have theme ( ugly default one for style, color, theme,
> nautilus icons ), can't launch some applets ( windows list/systray,
> desktop switcher ) because of an OAFIID cryptic error ...
>
>
> And i have nothing interesting in ~/.xsession-errors
> This is not a locking problem on my nfs partition as I don't have the
> message saying that gconfd had problem locking some files.
>
> It's incredible how easily I can break gnome ( nfs bugs -> gconfd
> locking problem whereas kde works like a charm, ???? -> gnome
> preferences daemon not starting ).
> So am I the only one ? someone know a better way to solve this problem
> than deleting all my prefs ... ?
I am facing exactly the same problem at work, with the same configuration
(/home directory mounted by NFS). I reboot the computer instead of removing
all the preference files and then it works fine: I was not used to do that
since I left windows some years ago :-(
Daniel
