Description of problem: I'm getting this 'error' all the time (for past month or so) in Thunderbird, and also I believe in Firefox: "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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/UNKNOWN:1.0)". The site noted is not in any language the average user can follow. I've searched and searched and have not been able to find anything about what specifically to do about this exact error. Please tell me in plain English what exactly I need to do, if anything. Doesn't seem to be preventing me from doing anything past couple weeks, but I believe may be causing long startup time which was 30 mins for couple weeks, but still 10-15 mins last couple weeks, and may have had something to do with not being able to access internet for days a month ago, and for a day a couple weeks ago. THANK YOU Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: just using T-bird and Firefox Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: is very irritating; really would like to fix and getting exasberated with it Additional info:
Do you have any NFS file system mounted?
Not sure how to tell what you're asking - I'm new at Fedora. If you mean, "do I have multiple OS's" on this computer, the answer is no. Just Fedora 11.
Ok.. Please post the output of "cat /proc/mounts"
[thetrude@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,data=ordered 0 0 /dev /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0 none /selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,data=ordered 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,rootcontext=system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0,relatime 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0 /etc/auto.misc /misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=7,pgrp=2090,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0 -hosts /net autofs rw,relatime,fd=13,pgrp=2090,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0 sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0 nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw,relatime 0 0 gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/thetrude/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=500,group_id=500 0 0 -------------------------------------- [root@localhost thetrude]# cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,data=ordered 0 0 /dev /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0 none /selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,data=ordered 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,rootcontext=system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0,relatime 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0 /etc/auto.misc /misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=7,pgrp=2090,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0 -hosts /net autofs rw,relatime,fd=13,pgrp=2090,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0 sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0 nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw,relatime 0 0 gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/thetrude/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=500,group_id=500 0 0 thank you!
somebody ... anybody? what happened to assistance with this 'bug'? thanks ...
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See also bug 610827