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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't use gnome! [SOLVED]
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On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 20:04 +0100, b.n. wrote:
> Michael Sullivan ha scritto:
> > I rebooted into Linux a couple of days ago and tried to log into gnome,
> > and a whole bunch of error messages popped up.  They all said basically
> > this:
> > 
> > There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/global.
> > (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-michael/lock/ior' not
> > opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR
> > file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd
> > located: No such file or directory))
> 
> I'm a KDE user, so take my advice with a grain of salt. But I googled a
> bit, and you're not alone (even if your error is obscure). Unfortunately
> I failed to find a clear cut solution.
> 
> However, you may try to start gnome with another user, or erase (move)
> your .gnome .gconf etc. and retry. It seems something in your
> configuration files is weird.
> 
> m.

I fixed it.  Somehow some permissions on some directories on /tmp got
changed.  I changed them back, and it seems to be back to normal now...

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