From Bugzilla Helper: 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.
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.