From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Linux 2.4.20-9 i686) Opera 7.11 [en] Description of problem: I have been using evolution for a while, and upgrades from a version to another have always gone without problems, but this time a serious problem occured. When I start evolution, the configuration-tool asks for emailadress/ incoming/outcoming mail properties and so on, although this information was used by the previous release of evolution. When I'm almost finish with the configuration, the configuration tool crashes, so when I start evolution next time, it launches the configuration tool. It's stuck in a loop. Here is the output: $ evolution file /home/oysteigy/evolution/vfolders.xml contains nothing to upgrade xml file `/home/oysteigy/evolution/filters.xml' already upgraded evolution-shell-Message: Evolution configuration upgraded to version: 1.3.1 (evolution:3596): e-utils-WARNING **: e_config_listener_set_bool: 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 '/home/oysteigy/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/home/oysteigy/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory) (evolution:3596): evolution-mail-importer-WARNING **: Broken line: (evolution:3596): evolution-mail-importer-WARNING **: Broken line: (evolution:3596): Bonobo-WARNING **: Failed to get '/desktop/gnome/interface/menubar_detachable': '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 '/home/oysteigy/. gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/home/oysteigy/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)' warning: failed to load external entity "/home/oysteigy/evolution/config/storage-set-view-expanded:default" gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: 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 '/home/oysteigy/. gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/home/oysteigy/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory) aborting... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-1.3.92-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run evolution 2. 3. Additional info: I have tried to make a /home/oysteigy/.gconfd/lock/ior file, but it didnt work either. I'm using apt-get with ftp.uninett.no as archive. Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list: rpm ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt redhat/rawhide/en/i386/redhat os rpm-src ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt redhat/rawhide/en/i386/redhat os rpm ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt redhat/9/en/i386/redhat freshrpms rpm-src ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/apt redhat/9/en/i386/redhat freshrpms
Run gconf-sanity-check-2; any output?
Also try running "gconfd-2" from the command line and see if it crashes or prints anything, and check syslog for gconf-related messages
I have neither gconfd-2, nor gconf-sanity-check-2, but I have gconfd-1 and gconf-sanity-check-1. $ gconf-sanity-check-1 Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following problem: Failed to get a file lock: Failed to lock '/home/oysteigy/.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 I have not NFS mounted my homedir, it is on a regular ext3 partition on a local hardisk. $ lsof | grep lock gconfd-1 2916 oysteigy 6wW REG 3,3 265 190605 /home/oysteigy/.gconfd/lock/0t1054721830ut351883u500 p2916r1298960846k3221220092 (deleted) gconfd-1 2916 oysteigy 7wW REG 3,3 265 190608 /home/oysteigy/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/1t1054 721830ut405734u500p2916r921870765k3221219708 (deleted) running gconfd-1 gives me no kind of output. The messages in /var/log/messages is similar to those from gconf-sanity-check-1
-2 versions are in /usr/libexec Do you have an NFS home directory? If so removing ~/.gconf*/*lock/* will probably fix things, it would be interesting to know if that helps.
No, I do not have a NFS homedir, as I have already stated. But your tip worked anyway, I removed my .gconfd dir, and suddenly everything worked. Thanks.