This worked Friday
Michael Butash
michael at butash.net
Sun Aug 21 12:41:10 MST 2011
May have been the update, but I've not ever had any kind of update
process blow apart gconf, only random fs errors typically. It could
have been a bug introduced, but I would say unlikely. I've not taken
the time to learn the in's and out's of gconf to manually fix the
matter, rather sticking with the brutish rebuild profile/start-over
approach. The atrocity called Natty has taught me to disable automatic
updates in ubuntu now so no unwanted/unstable packages creep in.
I always layer at least LVM on top of the raw partitions, and sometimes
lvm on top luks, on top md raid. I expect I'm the only one anal enough
to do this for using linux native on my work laptop (hence crypto) and
thus the fs corruption only manifests with limited users like me. New
fedora builds use lvm by default now, I'll be curious to see if my pains
go more mainstream now.
-mb
On 08/21/2011 11:53 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net
> <mailto: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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