On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:45 -0700, Les wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 15:36 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Running GNOME in fully updated F8 on a dual-core x86_64. When I log in, > > several apps or applets produce pop-up error boxes with the following > > text: > > > > An error occurred while loading or saving configuration > > information for <applet>. Some of your configuration settings > > may not work properly. > > > > Clicking the "details" button produces one to several occurrences of the > > message: > > > > Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: > > IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 > > > > This started a while back, and it would occur on the first login after > > boot, but subsequent logins would work fine. More recently, it's > > started happening on every login. The applets that produce the error > > vary, but they include > > > > - Power Manager > > - gnome-terminal > > - Evolution's calendar/alarm app > > - nm-applet > > > > and others. > > > > Anybody have a clue what's going on? Which component should I BZ? > > > > TIA. > > > > -- > > Matthew Saltzman > Have you attempted to create a new user to see if a new account > experiences the same issue? In my experience, > such failures are the result of a memory flaw, either hardware or a > program that is overwriting system memory some how due to a bad > malloc/free frame. It need not be any of the programs you are currently > running, because such an error only manifests when the affected system > routine or memory is accessed again. Interesting. I ran a pass of Memtest86+ and fsck. No errors reported by either utility, but the CORBA errors have not recurred. We'll just wait and see. Thanks for the tip. > > Regards, > Les H > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list