Re: CORBA error

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2003.09.03 15:51, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> I use Balsa (2.0.14 and cvs) on two RH9.0 boxes. One was a fresh  
> install, and everything works. The other was upgraded from some hoary  
> old version, and recently started popping up an alert on starting  
> Balsa, with the message:
> 
>  An error occurred while loading or saving configuration
>  information for balsa. Some of your configuration settings may
>  not work properly.
> 
> A `Details' button shows four copies of:
> 
>  Configuration server couldn't be contacted:
>   CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0
> 
> I haven't noticed any settings not working, but Balsa may have become  
> more prone to hangs.
> 
> Any ideas about what's wrong, or what I can do to diagnose it?

I think it is related to GConf. We do not use GConf _directly_ (but I  
believe gtkhtml widget _may_ read its preferences via gconf) so it is  
not a major problem. Check whether you get this message with other  
GNOME2programs.

Pawel