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