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Date:      10 Jul 2002 22:31:40 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Preferences errors gnome2
Message-ID:  <1026354705.348.17.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1026353456.8748.45.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
References:  <1026091992.17474.3.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>  <1026277539.719.6.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>  <1026353456.8748.45.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>

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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 22:10, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> See my other message about preferences.
> 
> The problem occurred because not enough of the gdm1 processes were
> killed when I logged out in the transition between gdm1 and gdm2.  In
> particular, gconfd-1 was still running and preventing gconfd-2 from
> running.
> 
> It appears that the only reliable way to actually transition between
> gdm1 and gdm2 is to reboot.

I used to add the following to gdm1's PostSession/Default:

killall gconfd-1
killall gconfd-2
killall oafd
killall esd

Joe

> 
> /Joe
> 
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 22:05, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 21:33, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > > Every time I start Gnome2, I get a lot of error boxes about not being
> > > able to set or get preferences.  The error is:
> > > 
> > > An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
> > > gnome-panel. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
> > > 
> > > and the details:
> > > 
> > > Configuration server couldn't be contacted:
> > >  CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0
> > > 
> > > Basically gconfd-2 is not running and it doesn't seem to want to run (I
> > > tried starting it manually).
> > 
> > What does it say when you try to start it manually?
> > 
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Make sure you don't have any gconfd-1 processes running, and that all
> > your ~/.gconf* directory and underlying file permissions are correct.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > > /Joe
> > > 
> > > p.s., when are the gnome archives actually going to be available from
> > > the FreeBSD mailing list site?  We cannot search freebsd-gnome and we
> > > cannot look at anything but this week there.  It prevents me from
> > > accessing all of the good advice from last week...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
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