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