On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Michael Butash <michael@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@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

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