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up vote 9 down vote favorite 2 How come I always get "GConf Error: 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: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send
Stale Nfs Locks Due To A System Crash
a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)" when I start 'gedit' from a shell from my superuser account? linux gedit share|improve this question asked Sep 14 '09 at 13:17 jldupont 41.7k32140258 (and yes, that's normal, I don't remember what's the culprit, but it's one of the environment variables that prevents contact with configuration server. most likely HOME). –Michael Krelin - hacker Sep 14 '09 at 13:22 1 I think that this belongs to Super User or Server Fault. –Cristian Ciupitu Sep 14 '09 at 13:26 Sorry guys... I'll move to Super User. –jldupont Sep 14 '09 at 13:42 add a comment| 5 Answers 5 active oldest votes up vote 4 down vote accepted The technical answer is that gedit is a Gtk+/Gnome program, and expects to find a current gconf session for its configuration. But running it as a separate user who isn't logged in on the desktop, you don't find it. So it spits out a warning, telling you. The failure should be benign though, and the editor will still run. The real answer is: don't do that. You don't want to be running GUI apps as anythin
Assigned to Milestone gconf (Ubuntu) Edit Invalid Low Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this bug's status. Affecting: gconf (Ubuntu) Filed here by: iblue When: 2009-10-05 details - 1: not running within active session Completed: 2010-10-08 Target Distribution Baltix BOSS Juju Charms Collection Elbuntu Guadalinex Guadalinex Edu
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Kiwi Linux nUbuntu PLD Linux Tilix tuXlab Ubuntu Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Build Ubuntu RTM Package (Find…) Project (Find…) Status Importance could not send message to gconf daemon Invalid Low Assigned to Nobody Me Comment on this change (optional) Email me about changes to this bug report Nominated for Karmic by Artem Vorotnikov Also affects project (?) Also affects distribution/package Nominate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1421498/linux-gedit-i-always-get-gconf-error-failed-to-contact-configuration-server for series Bug Description Binary package hint: libgconf2-4 Hi, After updating from 9.04 (jaunty) to 9.10 (karmic), the desktop is not usable anymore. I keep getting strange error messages. When trying to start gnome-terminal, firefox, or any applets in the taskbar, I get the following error message in the terminal or in some popup: GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444067 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) GConf Error: 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) GConf Error: 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) GConf Error: 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) [...] Solution: iblue@raven:~$ sudo -s Password: root@raven:~# groups iblue iblue : adm disk dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare mythtv root@raven:~# usermod -G admin,iblue iblue And after rebooting everything works as usual. I have no idea why this works. You can repr
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