gconf gconf2 problem with Sarge

From: Glen Snyder (gsnyder_at_rice.edu)
Date: 11/29/03

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Date: 29 Nov 2003 12:22:36 -0600

    I've had a few hiccups lately with Sarge (on a linux box named tracer),
    that seem to be related to gconf and gconf2 which I first noticed when
    trying to start Galeon.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Glen

    Both gconf processes seem to be running:

    tracer:/home/glen# ps jaxwww | grep gconf
        1 431 402 402 ? -1 S 1000 0:01
    /usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 13
     2895 2966 2965 2792 ttyp0 2965 R 0 0:00 grep gconf

    Here's whatI get in /var/log/messages/

    Nov 29 11:22:57 tracer gconfd (glen-2764): starting (version 2.4.0.1),
    pid 2764 user 'glen'
    Nov 29 11:22:57 tracer gconfd (glen-2764): Failed to get lock for
    daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gconfd-glen/lock/ior': probably
    another process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file
    locking misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable)
    Nov 29 11:29:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): starting (version 2.4.0.1),
    pid 2866 user 'root'
    Nov 29 11:29:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): Resolved address
    "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config
    source at position 0
    Nov 29 11:29:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): Resolved address
    "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
    Nov 29 11:29:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): Resolved address
    "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config
    source at position 2
    Nov 29 11:35:08 tracer gconfd (root-2866): GConf server is not in use,
    shutting down.

    Also, if I try: "tracer:/home/glen# gconftool-1 --shutdown" I get:
    Shutdown error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause
    of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd)
    running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two
    machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit) 

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