This worked Friday

[Dazed_75]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> Looks like gconf got horked up somehow - did the system crash or have
> unstable shutdown with ext4?


No crash or ungraceful shutdown,


> Orbit corba engine isn't accepting unix socket connections, meaning part of
> gnome is broken.  Unfortunately I've had things like this happen several
> times when the file system gets partially corrupted, usually meaning you
> need it to rebuild gconf for gnome user environment.  Try a new user profile
> so it creates anew, and I'll bet it works ok.  Make sure to fsck the file
> system first too.
>

I have not tried this yet but I have to leave for some time, so later is
more likely.

>
> I *think* the .gconf directory will rebuild if moved, but I don't remember
> exactly what I did last time.  Either I removed the user and readded it to
> rebuild the gconf databases, moving my other data back in (painful) or I
> figured out how to trigger a rebuild, but I really don't remember now


Could it have been update-gconf-defaults?


> unfortunately.  Either way you more or less need to rebuild your profile
> data.
>
> If someone has found a more graceful way of accomplishing this, I'd be all
> ears...
>
> <siderant>
>
> I used to use exclusively reiserfs for a good 6-7yr because it was uber
> stable for me, and only once had an issue like this due to nasty crash in
> laptop.  I've thus begun using ext4 since he had to go and off his wife, but
> I've had tons of file system corruption issues in the few years now I've
> used it.  Granted I'm always using some/all of md raid, luks, ssd's, and
> lvm2 *with* ext4, but it seems rather... touchy. Anyone else get this
> somewhat regularly?
>

Nope.  I've been using ext4 on maybe 6 machines since shortly after it
became the Ubuntu default and have seen no problems whatsoever (keeping my
extremities crossed must help).

>
> </siderant>
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 08/21/2011 09:52 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
>> I am sitting at the same machine I was at Friday when I did and ssh -X
>> fogtest and usd gedit to edit these same files on that machine.  Here is
>> what happened today (or most of it before it seemed to be looping and I
>> ctrl-C's out.  Any ideas why it worked two days ago and earlier, but not
>> now?
>>
>> larry at triggerfish:~$ ssh -X fogtest
>> Linux fogtest 2.6.32-33-generic-pae #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 22:06:29
>> UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
>> Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
>>
>> Welcome to Ubuntu!
>>  * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
>>
>> Last login: Sun Aug 21 09:26:28 2011 from triggerfish
>> larry at fogtest:~$ cd /tftpboot/howtogeek/menus/
>> larry at fogtest:/tftpboot/**howtogeek/menus$ gksu gedit linux.cfg
>> 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/ <http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/> for
>> information. (Details -  1: Failed
>> to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket
>> /tmp/dbus-sHNvbSgsiU: Connection refused)
>> 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/ <http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/> for
>> information. (Details -  1: Failed
>> to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket
>> /tmp/dbus-pavx6iF905: Connection refused)
>> 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/ <http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/> for
>> information. (Details -  1: Failed
>> to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket
>> /tmp/dbus-CNddZFneJ7: Connection refused)
>> 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/ <http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/> for
>> information. (Details -  1: Failed
>> to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket
>> /tmp/dbus-0lSHvTkIZ9: Connection refused)
>>
>> (gksu:10992): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value !=
>> NULL' failed
>>
>> --
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>
>> The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
>> occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
>>   - Thomas Jefferson
>>
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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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