I've yet to get GNOME to work in 8.2. The gnome desktop starts up without
a window manager, the control panel works, but any apps requireing gconfd-1
(like galeon) won't start.
This problem has persisted from 8.2beta1 to current cooker. I've
reinstalled numerous times using beta1 and beta2 CDs. All packages are
current as of this morning.
A few of the gnome rpms I have installed:
GConf-1.0.8-1mdk
gnome-utils-1.4.1.2-1mdk
gnome-core-1.4.0.6-2mdk
gnome-control-center-1.5.11-4mdk
libgnome32-1.4.1.4-2mdk
gnome-common-1.2.4-3mdk
gnome-vfs-1.0.4-3mdk
Trying to start galeon results in the following error:
** WARNING **: GConf error:
Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an
existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if
you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for
ORBit)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that
you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable
from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP
networking for ORBit)
gconfd-1 just exits with an exit code of 1.
I think this strace shows the problem in gconfd-1:
open("/home/garrick/.gconfd/lock/0t1014318759ut311694u501p12381r863411298k3221222972",
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0700) = 6
fcntl64(6, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = -1 ENOLCK (No
locks available)
unlink("/home/garrick/.gconfd/lock/0t1014318759ut311694u501p12381r863411298k3221222972")
= 0
close(6) = 0
open("/home/garrick/.gconfd/lock/ior", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
brk(0x805d000) = 0x805d000
time([1014318759]) = 1014318759
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x4020d550, [], 0x4000000}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
send(4, "<12>Feb 21 11:12:39 gconfd (garr"..., 141, 0) = 141
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0
unlink("/tmp/orbit-garrick/orb-9535059001641453031") = 0
_exit(1) = ?
