On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 20:04 +0100, b.n. wrote: > Michael Sullivan ha scritto: > > I rebooted into Linux a couple of days ago and tried to log into gnome, > > and a whole bunch of error messages popped up. They all said basically > > this: > > > > There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/global. > > (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-michael/lock/ior' not > > opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR > > file '/tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd > > located: No such file or directory)) > > I'm a KDE user, so take my advice with a grain of salt. But I googled a > bit, and you're not alone (even if your error is obscure). Unfortunately > I failed to find a clear cut solution. > > However, you may try to start gnome with another user, or erase (move) > your .gnome .gconf etc. and retry. It seems something in your > configuration files is weird. > > m.
I fixed it. Somehow some permissions on some directories on /tmp got changed. I changed them back, and it seems to be back to normal now... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
