From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8RFO-00046s-Qg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 03:53:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44ED8E03AB; Mon, 25 May 2009 03:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995FCE03AB for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 03:53:08 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAMGyGUp8qcw7/2dsb2JhbADMZIIzgVgF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,242,1241366400"; d="scan'208";a="447468433" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.204.59]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 25 May 2009 11:53:06 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A6C185DD5C for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:53:06 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JSk0s2qdaQR7 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:53:03 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.50.73] (unknown [192.168.50.73]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9998185DD53 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 11:53:02 +0800 (WST) Subject: [gentoo-user] gconf problems From: "W.Kenworthy" To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth, Western Australia Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:53:02 +0800 Message-Id: <1243223582.3901.8.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 504ea204-30a7-454a-a0cf-13a878369419 X-Archives-Hash: 4eb92a61be18c1dcb082692c77c71d8d I started getting these errors recently from a number of systems, as well as failures in operation. The cause appears to be scripts/programs running as root trying to contact the user gconf daemon. This is "stupid" so how can I work around it. One case I am trying to fix is hibernate scripts resetting the background on a laptop before it shuts down - fails. Another is killing evolution from root when it dies, wont exit etc. Billk 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://www.gnome.org/projects/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 a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)