On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Michael Butash 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... > > > > 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). > > > > -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@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@fogtest:~$ cd /tftpboot/howtogeek/menus/ >> larry@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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss > -- 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