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 1M8iyD-00046y-RZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:48:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 555DAE0681; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31392E0682 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CA8660A7 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:48:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.229 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.229 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.630, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8Cn5KcKoBCL0 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:48:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C863B69C97 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 21:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M8i4P-0005Q5-Fj for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 21:50:57 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-199-7.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.199.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 21:50:57 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-199-7.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 21:50:57 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gconf problems Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:51:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-199-7.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2pre (X11; 2009052506) In-Reply-To: <1243223582.3901.8.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: a323148e-9cfa-47d9-bdb8-583471a79f36 X-Archives-Hash: 395da458bae87d3da0a9cfe1a3207cc4 W.Kenworthy wrote: > 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.) Using the tried-and-true SWAG method, my only idea is that maybe your gnome-session is not being started with dbus-launch. I notice that /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome (used by gdm) was recently changed to remove the use of dbus-launch, and I'm inclined to think that was a 'misteak'. How are your gnome-sessions being started?