On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 07:04, Bob Mclaughlin wrote: > Gee, is my BO that bad. I sent the following yesterday and > got zero replies. Do I just reinstall or what? Several things are possible.... 1. It is the weekend and all the intelligent people are out enjoying themselves and not playing with silly computers. 2. Your problem is rather unique and the one other person who had it hasn't read your email yet. 3. Others have seen this problem before but are waiting for someone else to respond. 4. Yes, your BO is that bad. I've not seen your problem but I have to ask the obvious question. Besides looking on the gnome.org site, did you google? Try not to expect instant gratification. You'll come up short most of the time.... Regards, Ed P.S. It is Monday morning here in Taiwan....so #1 doesn't apply to me. :-) :-) > >When I give the startx command, Gnome comes up partly with > >gibberish and hangs. Ctrl-Alt F1 gives me a message that > >says: (nautilus:1439): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: 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://gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. > > (Details - 1: IOR file 'home/bob/.gconfd/lock/ior' not > >opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or > >directory. > > > >The gnome.org site doesn't seem to address corrective > >actions for this. I may not know what they mean by NFS. > >I'm running Ext3 file system. Can anyone offer some > >guidance? > > > >Bob McLaughlin > > -- http://www.shorewall.net Shorewall, for all your firewall needs
