Bug 92380

Summary:	remote gnome programs don't work (gconf access fails?)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	jmccann
Component:	ORBit2	Assignee:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
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Version:	9	CC:	cschalle
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Description jmccann 2003-06-05 17:32:50 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313

Description of problem:
It seems that I'm unable to run programs over the network that require GConf.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
CASE 1
  1. ssh remotehost
  2. gnome-terminal

CASE 2
  1. ssh remotehost
  2. gedit

Actual Results:  CASE 1

There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/global. (Adding
client to server's list failed,
CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings. (Adding
client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
There was an error loading a terminal keybinding. (Adding client to server's
list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
[repeated many times]
There was an error loading config value for whether to use mnemonics. (Adding
client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
There was an error loading config value for whether to use menu accelerators.
(Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:
IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
There was an error getting the list of terminal profiles. (Adding client to
server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
There was an error loading config from /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default.
(Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:
IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
There was an error loading config value for whether to use mnemonics. (Adding
client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
There was an error loading config from /desktop/gnome/interface. (Adding client
to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
 
(gnome-terminal:14802): GConf-WARNING **: Directory `/desktop/gnome/interface'
was not being monitored by GConfClient 0x80bb760

CASE 2

(gedit:15095): Bonobo-WARNING **: Failed to get
'/desktop/gnome/interface/menubar_detachable': 'Adding client to server's list
failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'
 
SEGFAULT!


Expected Results:  Um... not this.

Additional info:

Non-gnome apps work fine.  Xterm works.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-06-05 18:09:37 UTC

See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for the workarounds (enable TCP 
CORBA, or try GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS)

The larger fix is in the works, but I'm not going to keep the bug open for that, 
as it's a big architectural change and I won't forget to work on it. ;-)
See my paper at www.linuxsymposium.org 2002 proceedings for the larger
architectural fix plan.