On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Anthony Houston <anthony.houston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am running Fedora 11; clean new install on new hard drive. > > Name : firefox > Arch : i586 > Version : 3.5.3 > Release : 1.fc11 > > Firefox will not start from the desktop icon but will start from the CLI > but only as su. Even then I get the following errors: > > (firefox:2295): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session > manager: > > None of the authentication protocols specified are supported. > > 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://projects.gnome.org/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.) > > I tried to follow the gnome url listed in the error but could not find > some of the references on my computer. > > I have performed the following to make sure my system is uptodate: > > su > yum update --enablerepo=rpm*g --enablerepo=u*g --skip-broken -v > reboot > > There are MANY threads on FedorumForum about this with all the same > suggestions. I logged this as a bug with Mozilla but they say it isn't > and that I need to go back to the packager (fedora). > > Any suggestions please. > Check permissions for the user. Do "ls -la /home/user_name". -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
