Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 132403
gnucash fails to start, gives gconf error
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:49 EST
Description of problem: gnucash is failing to start. I ran it successfully for a few days, but now it fails at startup with the text: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Looking in Installed Packages: Name : GConf Arch : i386 Version: 1.0.9 Release: 13.1 How reproducible: Unknown. Steps to Reproduce: 1. start gnucash 2. 3. Actual results: gnucash fails to start with error message on console. Expected results: gnucash should start properly. Additional info: gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 I have looked into mailing list messages from Havoc like "http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2002-February/msg00170.html". gconf-sanity-check-1 produces: Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following problem: Failed to get a file lock: Failed to lock '/home/chris/.gconfd/lock/ior': probably another process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured, or a hard NFS client crash caused a stale lock (Resource temporarily unavailable) - run gconf-sanity-check-1 for possible diagnosis, see http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for more information When I run gconf-sanity-check-1, gconfd-2 is running. My home directory is NFS-mounted from a Debian Sarge box. lockd, rpciod are running on the NFS server. rpc.statd, rpc.idmapd, rpciod, and lockd are running on the Fedora NFS client.
does gconftool-2 -R /apps/metacity work ? I presume not - this sounds like a problem with the NFS configuration, just like the warning message suggests. I don't really have any advice on how to fix that, you could try one of the fedora mailing lists to see if anyone else has had success, but it doesn't appear to be a GConf bug. Thanks, closing as NOTABUG.