gconf problem with Firefox 3
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From: Stuart Crow on 20 Jul 2008 06:47 I think that I have inadvertently done something that I should not have :-( Suddenly, when opening Firefox 3 I get the following : A dialog appears stating 'An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for firefox-bin. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.' Selecting Details on the dialog button gives : '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 '/tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)' This then keeps repeating. I then get a dialog asking if I want to make Firefox my default browser. Firefox then opens and runs ok. I have the folder /tmp/gconfd-stuart, but there is no lock folder in it. Can anyone help ? I have googled and tried the gconf site but cannot find anything applicable. PCLinuxOS 2007 KDE TIA � ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
From: Will Kemp on 20 Jul 2008 06:34 Stuart Crow wrote: > I think that I have inadvertently done something that I should not > have :-( > Suddenly, when opening Firefox 3 I get the following : > A dialog appears stating 'An error occurred while loading or saving > configuration information for firefox-bin. Some of your configuration > settings may not work properly.' > > Selecting Details on the dialog button gives : > '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 '/tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock/ior' > not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory > 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no > gconfd located: No such file or directory)' > > This then keeps repeating. > I then get a dialog asking if I want to make Firefox my default > browser. Firefox then opens > and runs ok. > > I have the folder /tmp/gconfd-stuart, but there is no lock folder in > it. Have you tried creating /tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock ? It can't do any harm. > Can anyone help ? I have googled and tried the gconf site but cannot > find anything > applicable. > PCLinuxOS 2007 > KDE > TIA Hmmm... KDE and gconf - that doesn't sound like a perfect match! I don't know anything about KDE really, but i don't understand why Firefox needs gconf when it's running under KDE. Do you always run KDE? Of have you recently run Firefox under gnome? You could try deleting - or preferably renaming - the Firefox config files in .mozilla/firefox. Just move that subdirectory to your desktop or somewhere while firefox isn't running and then start firefox and see what happens. Depending on how much customisation you've done on firefox, you'll probably want to at least copy back the bookmarks file, if it works and you decide to keep it that way. If it does work, you can move the backup back into place and selectively delete or edit config files until you sort the problem out. -- http://MaldonIT.co.uk
From: Stuart Crow on 20 Jul 2008 08:02 On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:34:57 +0100, Will Kemp <will(a)xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote: >Stuart Crow wrote: >> I think that I have inadvertently done something that I should not >> have :-( >> Suddenly, when opening Firefox 3 I get the following : >> A dialog appears stating 'An error occurred while loading or saving >> configuration information for firefox-bin. Some of your configuration snip >> applicable. >> PCLinuxOS 2007 >> KDE >> TIA > >Hmmm... KDE and gconf - that doesn't sound like a perfect match! I don't >know anything about KDE really, but i don't understand why Firefox needs >gconf when it's running under KDE. Do you always run KDE? Of have you >recently run Firefox under gnome? > >You could try deleting - or preferably renaming - the Firefox config >files in .mozilla/firefox. Just move that subdirectory to your desktop >or somewhere while firefox isn't running and then start firefox and see >what happens. > >Depending on how much customisation you've done on firefox, you'll >probably want to at least copy back the bookmarks file, if it works and >you decide to keep it that way. If it does work, you can move the backup >back into place and selectively delete or edit config files until you >sort the problem out. Thanks for reply I tried creating /tmp/.../lock but it made no difference. I moved the profile folder from .mozilla/firefox to the desktop, but then when I tried to start Firefox I was informed that Firefox was already running and I should close it first. Firefox was not running, and I also tried ps -e and there was no mention of Firefox. Yes I always run KDE, I have never run Firefox under Gnome, because I only have KDE. How gconf etc is set up is how the system was set up on installation. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
From: Will Kemp on 20 Jul 2008 07:17 Stuart Crow wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:34:57 +0100, Will Kemp <will(a)xxxx.swaggie.net> > wrote: > >> Stuart Crow wrote: >>> I think that I have inadvertently done something that I should not >>> have :-( >>> Suddenly, when opening Firefox 3 I get the following : >>> A dialog appears stating 'An error occurred while loading or saving >>> configuration information for firefox-bin. Some of your configuration > snip >>> applicable. >>> PCLinuxOS 2007 >>> KDE >>> TIA >> Hmmm... KDE and gconf - that doesn't sound like a perfect match! I don't >> know anything about KDE really, but i don't understand why Firefox needs >> gconf when it's running under KDE. Do you always run KDE? Of have you >> recently run Firefox under gnome? >> >> You could try deleting - or preferably renaming - the Firefox config >> files in .mozilla/firefox. Just move that subdirectory to your desktop >> or somewhere while firefox isn't running and then start firefox and see >> what happens. >> >> Depending on how much customisation you've done on firefox, you'll >> probably want to at least copy back the bookmarks file, if it works and >> you decide to keep it that way. If it does work, you can move the backup >> back into place and selectively delete or edit config files until you >> sort the problem out. > > Thanks for reply > I tried creating /tmp/.../lock but it made no difference. Yeah, i didn't think it would, but it was worth a try. > I moved the profile folder from .mozilla/firefox to the desktop, but > then when I tried to start Firefox I was informed that Firefox was > already running and I should close it first. Firefox was not running, > and I also tried ps -e and there was no mention of Firefox. That's strange. It probably means there's some kind of lock file somewhere that firefox checks. I can't imagine where it would be other than in .mozilla/firefox though... You could try moving the whole of ..mozilla somewhere else. And you could have a look in /tmp and see if there's anything that looks like it could be a firefox lock file. Or you could google >>firefox "lock file"<< - that will throw up a fair bit of stuff for you to look throuh. > Yes I always run KDE, I have never run Firefox under Gnome, because I > only have KDE. How gconf etc is set up is how the system was set up on > installation. It sounds like some pclinuxos weirdness, maybe. I dunno, cos i've never used it. (I do know it's a damn silly name for a distro though! ;-) -- http://MaldonIT.co.uk
From: Ben Bacarisse on 20 Jul 2008 07:40
Stuart Crow <stuart.crow(a)tiscali.co.uk> writes: > I think that I have inadvertently done something that I should not > have :-( > Suddenly, when opening Firefox 3 I get the following : > A dialog appears stating 'An error occurred while loading or saving > configuration information for firefox-bin. Some of your configuration > settings may not work properly.' > > Selecting Details on the dialog button gives : > '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 '/tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock/ior' > not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory > 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no > gconfd located: No such file or directory)' Is gconfd running? -- Ben. |