I was getting similar error messages in hardy 8.04. Using "gconftool-2 --spawn" did not spawn a gconfd instance, gave the error message below.
I identified the problem by running "strace -fF gconftool --spawn 2> strace-output.txt" It reports all system calls made by gconftool, and permissions on /tmp directory was the problem. If you still encounter this error, you can also try running strace and attaching the output to this bug. ==== error message ======== Failed to spawn the configuration server (gconfd): 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-USERNAME/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-USERNAME/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory) -- gconf-editor lost configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146871 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf-editor in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
