GNOME not working correctly

salmanucit · 02-08-2006, 06:35 AM

hi
i am using Red Hat Linux Advance Server 4 update 2

I used address bar of file browser of gnome to access a folder on windows as follows
"smb://lhrpc419/shared" i always use this and it works fine. without closing this window i shutdon my machine and when i restarted it, gnoe is not working correctly. i can see desktop but graphics are very pathatic and i cant see task baar.
when i open any application, i see the following error on a message box

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An error occured while loading or saving configuration information for Nautilus. Some of your configuration setting may not work properly
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When i click on details, i see the following error

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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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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Can anyone tell me that how to solve this problem

Regards

PTrenholme · 02-08-2006, 09:53 AM

Well, your error messages all seem to be saying that they can't find the Oracle lock files. This suggests that your Nautilus session information that was saved included an active connection to an Oracle data base, and that that connection was closed during the shutdown, so the saved Nautilus state is inconsistent with the actual system state.

If you install gTweekUI, you should get (among outer things) an additional menu item under "More Preferences" which will let you disable the automatic saving of the session state on logout.

Or you could try to remove the Nautilus session restore from the ~/.gnome2/session file, and then restart Nautilus by hand.

Note that, by default, Nautilus is used to "draw" the entire GNOME window, so the Oracle connection may not have been active in Nautilus itself, but simply displayed in some GNOME window. If that's the case, perhaps removing the Oracle table display(s) from the session file would be the best thing to do. (You can also, using gTweekUI ask GNOME to not use Nautilus to display the GNOME window. This has the effect of removing all icons from the desktop, wich is a feature I like, since I prefer to use menus to access application.)

Edit: Oh, if your problem was caused by the saved session saving some Oracle table displays from your desktop, perhaps you should try to close all table displays before you shutdown, or add a shutdown shell script that does so for you.

salmanucit · 02-09-2006, 03:08 AM

hi
i cleaned the whole "session" File. Actuall i have a user called ORACLE for management of Oracle Database Server and
i found this session file in its home folder. After that i restared the machine but its still not working
1) How to restart Nautilus by "hand" as u said
2) i dont understan the word u r using "Oracle Tables display from desktop". What does it mean. i have also washed out my
desktop now but same problem.
3) what do u mean by "close all table displays"

Its also displaying a dialog box with heading ""GConf Error" and displays "IOR FIle 'tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory"

Regards

PTrenholme · 02-09-2006, 09:49 AM

First, sorry: Since you are a DBA, I assumed that the "Oracle" was referring to a live Oracle connection rather than a user. Hence my comments about a "table display on the desktop." (Since Nautilus draws the desktop, I think you can set up a TCP connection to an Oracle DB that can display an Oracle application in a window on the desktop.) Anyhow, my bad. Sorry.

OK, let's try this: Do a ls -l /tmp/gconfd-oracle/* and a ls -l /tmp/gconfd-oracle/*/* You should see something like this:

Code:

$ ls -l /tmp/gconfd-*
/tmp/gconfd-oracle:
total 8
drwx------  2 oracle oracle 4096 Feb  9 07:57 lock
ls: /tmp/gconfd-root: Permission denied
$ ls -l /tmp/gconfd-*/*
total 8
-rwx------  1 oracle oracle 601 Feb  9 07:57 ior
$ cat /tmp/gconfd-*/*/ior
3119:IOR: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

From the error message, either these directories and this file don't exist, or the permissions on the /tmp directory won't let the "oracle" user access them properly. Since they are in /tmp, first do a ls -l / to verify that the permissons on /tmp are drwxrwxrwt (Note the terminal "t", indicating a "sticky" directory, so the other premissions should be immutable.)

I believe that the /tmp/gconfd-oracle directories and the ior file should be created when the "oracle" user logs in, so (if I'm correct) log in as root and delete all those directories and files (e.g., rm -R /tmp/gconfd-oracle/), and then log back in as "oracle."

CAUTION! Of course, I may not be correct, and looking at the gconfd documentation is probably a good idea.

Oh, another thought: I did a $ gconf<tab><tab> and found several commands that might help you:

Code:

$ gconf
gconfd-1              gconf-merge-tree      gconftool-2
gconf-editor          gconf-sanity-check-1
gconfigger            gconftool-1

Good luck.

salmanucit · 02-17-2006, 05:10 AM

Nops
Still not working

g4c9z · 07-15-2010, 09:18 AM

I was getting these messages for lots of applications, and for me it was fixed when I deleted my ~/.gconfd directory, which had a file called saved_state in it. Apparently that file got corrupted somehow.

gfyork · 11-23-2010, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by g4c9z

I was getting these messages for lots of applications, and for me it was fixed when I deleted my ~/.gconfd directory, which had a file called saved_state in it. Apparently that file got corrupted somehow.

I had an apparently identical problem. Rebooted (for the umpteenth time) moved the ~/.gconfd directory to a safe place (~/_.gconfd), rebooted and -- oh my, all was wonderfully well.

Thanks.

G.

g4c9z · 11-23-2010, 08:17 PM

It turned out that didn't fix my problem, after all. I thought it did initially, but it came back. Oh well, glad it fixed yours...

gfyork · 11-24-2010, 12:27 AM

My problem manifested after a screen freeze followed by a power down and reboot.

During the many subsequent reboot cycles, I'd found and deleted a few locks -- but no joy. Junking the 'saved_state' has seemed to make it all better. (And the system even seems to run faster -- though that may be due to the new *.26 generic coming in.)

I doubt you recall after these several years how long your apparent recover lasted -- and whether it lasted through your first reboot or not.

Have my fingers tightly crossed -- and it's really hard typing that way.

Best,

G.

g4c9z · 11-24-2010, 04:51 PM

My apparent recovery only lasted a day or so. It might not have lasted through a reboot.

JWilliamCupp · 04-23-2011, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gfyork

I had an apparently identical problem. Rebooted (for the umpteenth time) moved the ~/.gconfd directory to a safe place (~/_.gconfd), rebooted and -- oh my, all was wonderfully well.

Yep, this did it for me, too. Thanks for posting.