Re: Unsolveable Mystery

[snafu <snafu forkbomb dhs org>]

Well, as crazy (?) as it seems, when I initially installed Gentoo some time ago it must not have made a link to gconfd-2 for me. This problem was soved by creating a symlink to gconfd-2 in /usr/bin

Simple solution. Thanks for your time though!

-Paul

On 22 Sep 2002 14:40:08 +0200
Mario Vukelic <mario vukelic dantian org> squeeked like a girl and said:

> On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 04:13, snafu wrote:
> 
> > GConf error:
> >   Configuration server couldn't be contacted:
> 
> After logging out and before logging in again did you do shutdown both
> the gconfds from Gnome 1.4 and/or 2.0.x?
> 
> On the console:
> gconftool-1 --shutdown
> gconftool-2 --shutdown
> 
> Because, you mentioned that it works for a new user (who has no gconfd
> running by definition). While the gconfds of existing users who were
> logged in using Gnome keep running after logout, and may interfere.
> 
> 
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