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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 information. (Details - 1: Not running within active session) at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/GConfModule.pm line 48.
So please open up the file with a text editor an replace the contents with what I put in the code block above. Make sure you don't leave any blank lines.
That should fix this problem, but it is possible there will be other problems.
Evo2.
Last edited by evo2; 02-10-2010 at 04:06 AM.
Reason: typo
is there a way i can refresh all the conf files, just like a fresh instalation.
If you could reinstall the package, that would work, but your first post indicates that you are unable to do that. Having said that, it is probably worth trying to reinstall it directly with dpkg. Try the following:
please do not mind for my english
evo2 it did not worked
Quote:
sudo dpkg -i libsox-fmt-alsa_14.3.0-1build1_i386.deb
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `kubuntu-default-settings' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 5%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
failed in buffer_read(fd): files list for package `libgtkhex0': Is a directory
Sorry I didn't see post #6, only post #7. Looks like kubuntu-default-settings.list has been deleted. You can recreate this file in the same way that you fixed libsox_fmt_als.list. However I'm worried that many of these files are missing or corrupt.
Did something strange happen to your /var directory/partition?
One way to recover these files in bulk is to copy them from another machine that has the same packages installed.
[QUOTE=akhund_bilal;3858800]i think i have all messed up ubuntu that will not be possible to install all the packages on the other machine
[quote]
It should not be that hard. Just get the list of packages using one of the methods I described in in my earlier post: you can put the list directly into a file with:
Then copy that file to the freshly installed machine, and on that fresh machine do:
Code:
sudo apt-get install $(cat packages.txt)
Assuming that works, you now have to copy all the .list files back to the broken machine.
On new machine
Code:
mkdir ~/listfiles
cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/
cp $(for p in $(cat packages.txt) ; do echo $p.list ; done ) ~/listfiles/
Now you have all the file you need to copy in a directory called ~/listfiles/
Next you have to copy them to your broken machine. This could be done with a usb stick or scp depending on your situation.
Quote:
if i reinstall all karmic then can i reinstall all the software in one go which i have installed here
Reinstalling is totally up to you, but you will loose anything you customized and everything in your home directory (unless it is on separate partition). Reinstalling all the packages is easy since you already have a list of them.
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