On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:39, David Smith wrote: > Hi, > I have a problem with my X11 server under my root user. I'm really not > sure what happened. I logged out one day, and tried to log back in the > next day and all I get is some weird stuff from Gnome. I then have to > restart the x server using Ctrl+ALT+BACKSPACE to end the session. Then I > get this error msg repeated over and over until I hit Ctrl+C to get the > prompt: > 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 '/root/.gconfd/lock/ior' not > opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR > file '/root/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd > located: No such file or directory)
What about getting to a console login, then kill gdm, gcond-2, oaf, bonobo, orbit and anything else "Gnome" related, then trying to login again? (Yet another reason why I steer clear of graphical logins with Gnome) -- Tue Aug 5 13:20:00 EST 2003 13:20:01 up 1 day, 17:08, 1 user, load average: 1.07, 1.16, 0.98 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * *Glingleglingleglingle.* (Hogfather) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
