2009/5/13 Cornelius Mostert <corneliusmost...@googlemail.com> > Hallo all > > I have a system that has problems to load the Gnome panels, It boots > and the moment I log on I get the desk top but no panels > In the past I could execute the 2 commandments to load or reload the > panels if they frose: > > gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel > killall gnome-panel > > and then the panels would auto load again, however at this stage I get > this error on the first command and the panels does not load at all... > > Please have a look at this ... > _______________________________________ > [server]# gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel > Failure during recursive unset of "/apps/panel": 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: Failed to get connection to session: Did > not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application > did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the > reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was > broken.) > > [server]# killall gnome-panel > ________________________________________________ > > I know the system was a bit flake and will go to the mentioned website > and Google of course but maybe you guys have a quick solution / idea > > thanx > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
Hi, Does this happen with any other user on your system? Can you try with a new user? Can you boot a failsafe GNOME session? If not, try running a failsafe xterm session and then running "gnome-session --debug 2>&1 | tee ~/gsm.log" and having a look at the output of gnome-session. Regards Chris
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