From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Jul 10 19:32: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185A837B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:32:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C9A43E65 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:32:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.200] (vpn-client.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.200]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6B2VuFg000462; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:32:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Preferences errors gnome2 From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Joe Kelsey Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 10 Jul 2002 22:31:40 -0400 Message-Id: <1026354705.348.17.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > > > -- > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message