Thanks for the reply Ed. Guess I'll take a shower first. Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of >Ed Greshko >Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 7:42 PM >To: Shrike List >Subject: Re: FW: gnome startup error > > >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 > > >-- >Shrike-list mailing list >Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list >
