thanks i fixed it through some other method

On 12/3/09, James <jpamba02@...> wrote:
> Hi Gituma,The instuctions in the link u gave ought to work as ubuntu and
> redhat both use Gnome. From the link, after the harddrive freeze the files
> used by gconfd:~/.gconfd/lock/ior
>    ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior
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> in the session before the crash still exist thus the error.
> Do u have experience working with the command prompt and sudo command?
> James.
> --- On Sat, 7/11/09, Gituma Nturibi <gnturibi@...> wrote:
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> From: Gituma Nturibi <gnturibi@...>
> Subject: [kenyalinux] problems with Gconf
> To: kenyalinux@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, 7 November, 2009, 14:35
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Hi Gituma,The instuctions in the link u gave ought to work as ubuntu and redhat
both use Gnome. From the link, after the harddrive freeze the files used by
gconfd:~/.gconfd/lock/ior
    ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior

in the session before the crash still exist thus the error.
Do u have experience working with the command prompt and sudo command?
James.
--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Gituma Nturibi <gnturibi@...> wrote:

From: Gituma Nturibi <gnturibi@...>
Subject: [kenyalinux] problems with Gconf
To: kenyalinux@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 7 November, 2009, 14:35
















 









       hi

before i ask my question a liitle background- my hard disk has a problem

where it crashes once in a while- think there's a loose connection somewhere

coz it could be up and running then programs stop working all of a sudden.

Usually rebooting works but in this case some more damage was done and when

i boot I can't get into gnome- just get a black screeen and a message that

goes like this.



"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 more information.

Details - 1: Could not send the message to gconf daemon: message did not

receive a reply ? timeout by message bus"



Went to the site but it only had instructions for Red Hat but I'm using

Ubunto 9.04. Is there a way of getting atound this problem? i.e getting rif

of those file locks.



Any help would be appreciated.



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hi
before i ask my question a liitle background- my hard disk has a problem
where it crashes once in a while- think there's a loose connection somewhere
coz it could be up and running then programs stop working all of a sudden.
Usually rebooting works but in this case some more damage was done and when
i boot I can't get into gnome- just get a black screeen and a message that
goes like this.

"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 more information.
Details - 1: Could not send the message to gconf daemon: message did not
receive a reply ? timeout by message bus"

Went to the site but it only had instructions for Red Hat but I'm using
Ubunto 9.04. Is there a way of getting atound this problem? i.e getting rif
of those file locks.

Any help would be appreciated.


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