severity 208344 important thanks Well, I looked at the e-mail logcheck just sent me, and I found this:
gconfd (me-19567): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gconfd-me/lock/ior': probably another process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable) I killall-9'ed gconfd-2 and removed that lock file, and now Newton's working. So I'm downgrading it back to important. The problem is, those crazy CORBA errors gave _no indication_ of the actual problem. The only way I discovered it was by logcheck notifying me of those entries in the logs, I was going to try rebooting today if I couldn't figure it out otherwise, and that would most likely have fixed it (the PID in the lockfile was the same as the running gconfd-2 process), and then the real problem might still not be known. Remember that I looked for those lock files that were listed in the earlier reports, but I'm guessing that the location of the gconf lockfile has changed since then.
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