On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:18:56AM +0100, Stefan Ohlsson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian3.0 (woody) and kernel 2.4.13. > > I have gconf, libgconf11 and libgconf-dev installed, but still > none of the apps using gconf (gnome-gv, nautilus) works. Instead they > complain: > > "GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this > is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it > isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, > you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit)" > > A "ps auxc" reports no gconfd running. > > Any help appreciated! > Having just fixed a gconf <<>> oafd problem myself .....
1) Is oafd running OK? Try 'ps x | grep oafd'. You should see something like : 978 ? S 0:01 oafd --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=6 Check the there is such an fd. 'ls -l /proc/978/fd' If there is nothing in the dir that matches the ior-output-pd param, then, like me, your oafd has a problem. This probably isn't it, because the GConf error isn't followed by an OAF error. 2) Try cleaning up a little. Kill your oaf and gconf daemons - even though you say that gconf isn't running. 'oaf-slay' and 'gconftool-1 --shutdown' Now try starting gconf manually : 'gconftool-1 --spawn' Same error message? Can you ping a running gconf? 'gconftool-1 --ping || echo "Nothing there"' 3) Are you logged in from two machines? 4) Have you searched http://bugzilla.gnome.org ?
