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[Psquared]

or saving configuration information for hwbrowser. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

When I click on details I get the following:

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-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

I get this with any kind of hardware setup program like cups (printer) and the hardware browser.

No problems running programs as far as I know and the system seems stable. I just don't want ANY errors. Any ideas?

[imdeemvp]

Psquared,

you are having major problems arent you?...... im not a server guy sorry i cant help you on this one but i will bump up for you.

[Psquared]

Originally Posted by imdeemvp

Psquared,

you are having major problems arent you?...... im not a server guy sorry i cant help you on this one but i will bump up for you.

I'm slowly getting things back together . . . thanks to folks like you who are willing to take the time.

[crackers]

Are you running as "root" or a normal user? And when exactly do these messages show up?

[Psquared]

Originally Posted by crackers

Are you running as "root" or a normal user? And when exactly do these messages show up?

As a normal user. Anytime I run anything that stores or reads a configuration. I get an error with Switchdesk GUI, hardware browser, setting up a printer, stuff like that.

No - I take that back. It does ask for my root password . . . so I guess I am root.

[dishawjp]

Psquared,

Notice that all the error messages point to your /tmp directory. If you go back to our last thread, you will recall that you changed permissions recursively on your /tmp directory, and also, if you look at what I wrote about that, you'll see that I wasn't confident at all, that that was a good thing to do. There are ORBit files and directories in there and also your bonobo activation information.

So, anyway, back to gnome. If you boot to runlevel 3 and query the rpm database for gnome (see the following code) are your results similar to mine?

[dishawjp@eunix dishawjp]$ rpm -q gnome-libs
gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-40
[dishawjp@eunix dishawjp]$ rpm -q gnome-desktop
gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1-1
[dishawjp@eunix dishawjp]$

If they are similar, do the same for switchdesk:

[dishawjp@eunix dishawjp]$ rpm -q switchdesk
switchdesk-4.0.3-1
[dishawjp@eunix dishawjp]$

If your output is similar, then there is one more command I want you to issue:

$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome

This should give you a lot of output, please post it, or let me know if there is an error.

None of the above will change anything on your computer, it will just give some information on what's going on. I really don't understand the failure of the switchdesk command. That's pretty basic, but if it's somehow become uninstalled, we can put it back again.

Hope this helps,

Jim Dishaw

[Psquared]

Thanks Jim. Will do it tonight.

[Psquared]

My output to each of the commands matches yours exactly ... except with the gconftool-2. I get the exact same response as I posted above.

[root@lizzy ptlump]# gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome
Failure listing entries in `/desktop/gnome': Failed to contact configuration ser ver; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBi t, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/p rojects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/i or' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

Sounds like:
1) I need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit
2) I have stale NFS locks

You are right in that this points to a tmp file. Clearly gconf settings are held in this file and the file is either locked or cannot be created/opened.

What is IOR file /tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior?? Is this a permissions issue?

I also get an error when I open gedit. There are no errors on startup or shutdown that I can see. Everything says OK.

(gedit:3476): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

(gedit:3476): Bonobo-WARNING **: Failed to get '/desktop/gnome/interface/menubar_detachable': '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-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)'

All of this seems related somehow - except Switchdesk. Something is corrupt there - or maybe it will clear up once we figure the rest of this out??

Thanks.

[Psquared]

An update.

I logged in on my wife's username and I have no problems at all. So, something is corrupt in my user files.

Because I have no important documents to protect/save wouldn't it be easier to just my username and make a new one? How do I do that? Will the things I yummed still be there?

[imdeemvp]

Psquared, so it was probably something you installed. check your logs!

[dishawjp]

Psquared,

If the problem is with your account only, then it may well be a mess up in your ~/.gnome files. These should be safe to delete, but hold off on that until I am able to get to a Linux computer and check it out. All that *should* do is wipe your personal settings (background, themes, special icons and etc.), but I got called into work and won't be home for several hours. If you want, create a new user account, make some changes and then delete all the .gnome files/directories from runlevel 3 and then restart Gnome. That's what I will do when I get home to assure that this will not do anythng other than reset you to defaults.

More likely though, you have somehow hosed your /tmp directory, possibly by altering permissions. This can be fixed, though it will be a bit time consuming.

Do one more thing, I'm pretty confident that it will be normal. Run the command:

locate gconfd

and post the output. Then the following:

cd /tmp/gconfd-root/lock

ls -la

And post the output. When I get home, I'll take a look at that and will probably be able to better advise you on your next step.

Jim Dishaw

[crackers]

Actually, if you don't mind losing the user account settings (which you've indicated), then yes, you can simply delete the user and then re-create (add) the user back. Between the delete and add, check and make sure that the /home/user directory is deleted and that there are no files owned by the user in the /tmp directory.

[Psquared]

Originally Posted by dishawjp

Psquared,

If the problem is with your account only, then it may well be a mess up in your ~/.gnome files. These should be safe to delete, but hold off on that until I am able to get to a Linux computer and check it out. All that *should* do is wipe your personal settings (background, themes, special icons and etc.), but I got called into work and won't be home for several hours. If you want, create a new user account, make some changes and then delete all the .gnome files/directories from runlevel 3 and then restart Gnome. That's what I will do when I get home to assure that this will not do anythng other than reset you to defaults.

More likely though, you have somehow hosed your /tmp directory, possibly by altering permissions. This can be fixed, though it will be a bit time consuming.

Do one more thing, I'm pretty confident that it will be normal. Run the command:

locate gconfd

[lizzy@lizzy lizzy]$ su
Password:
[root@lizzy lizzy]# locate gconfd
/root/.gconfd
/root/.gconfd/saved_state
/root/.gconfd
/usr/bin/gconfd-1
/usr/libexec/gconfd-2
/home/lizzy/.gconfd
/home/lizzy/.gconfd/saved_state
/home/lizzy/.gconfd
/home/ptlump/.gconfd
/home/ptlump/.gconfd/saved_state
/home/ptlump/.gconfd
[root@lizzy lizzy]#

and post the output. Then the following:

cd /tmp/gconfd-root/lock

ls -la

[root@lizzy lizzy]# cd /tmp/gconfd-root/lock
bash: cd: /tmp/gconfd-root/lock: No such file or directory
[root@lizzy lizzy]#

[root@lizzy lizzy]# ls -la
total 188
drwx------ 22 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 11:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 6 09:39 ..
-rw------- 1 lizzy lizzy 0 Sep 25 09:17 .autorun.lck
-rw------- 1 lizzy lizzy 140 Sep 25 11:19 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 24 Mar 11 2004 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 191 Mar 11 2004 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 124 Mar 11 2004 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 6 13:37 .config
drwxr-xr-x 3 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 09:17 Desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 26 Sep 6 13:37 .dmrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 238 Apr 15 12:51 .emacs
-rw------- 1 lizzy lizzy 16 Sep 6 13:38 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x 2 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 09:43 .fonts
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 32112 Sep 25 11:29 .fonts.cache-1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 110 Sep 25 09:43 .fonts.conf
drwx------ 4 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 11:22 .gconf
drwx------ 2 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 11:29 .gconfd
drwx------ 5 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 6 13:37 .gnome
drwx------ 7 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 11:19 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 6 13:37 .gnome2_private
drwxr-xr-x 2 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 6 13:37 .gstreamer-0.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 120 Apr 20 10:57 .gtkrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lizzy lizzy 142 Sep 24 22:30 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
-rw------- 1 lizzy lizzy 314 Sep 25 11:22 .ICEauthority
drwxrwxr-x 2 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 24 22:27 .icons
drwxr-xr-x 4 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 09:17 .kde
-rw------- 1 lizzy lizzy 154 Sep 25 09:20 .kderc
drwxr-xr-x 3 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 09:17 .mcop
drwx------ 3 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 6 13:37 .metacity
drwx------ 4 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 24 22:37 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 3 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 6 13:37 .nautilus
drwxrwxr-x 2 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 09:38 .qt
-rw------- 1 lizzy lizzy 256 Sep 25 11:19 .recently-used
drwx------ 2 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 25 11:23 .rhn-applet
-rw------- 1 lizzy lizzy 497 Sep 6 13:37 .rhn-applet.conf
drwxrwxr-x 3 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 24 22:32 .themes
drwx------ 4 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 24 23:01 .thumbnails
drwx------ 2 lizzy lizzy 4096 Sep 24 23:03 .Trash
-rw------- 1 lizzy lizzy 116 Sep 25 11:22 .Xauthority
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lizzy lizzy 189 Sep 24 22:23 .Xclients
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lizzy lizzy 188 Sep 25 11:25 .Xclients-default
[root@lizzy lizzy]#

And post the output. When I get home, I'll take a look at that and will probably be able to better advise you on your next step.

Jim Dishaw

Thanks. I did notice that Switchdesk does not seem to work. It is set to start Gnome and I have a file called /etc/sysconfig/desktop and it is set to start Gnome. Yet, at the login screen if I don't select which desktop to start it will start KDE. There must be another file that controls which desktop is run and it is overriding my selection.

It seems to me that if I have two users each could set his/her own default desktop - unless the /etc/sysconfig/desktop setting applies to all users - which would not make much sense.

Thanks for your help.

[crackers]

The files that controls which desktop is in use by the user (as set by switchdesk) are:

~/.Xclients
~/.Xclients-default

(~ is short-hand for the user's home directory)

[Psquared]

Originally Posted by crackers

The files that controls which desktop is in use by the user (as set by switchdesk) are:

~/.Xclients
~/.Xclients-default

(~ is short-hand for the user's home directory)

Thanks. That's what I needed to know.