Re: gnome `recovery' after accidental shutdown
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 03:19, Miles Bader wrote:
> I accidentally turned off my machine (after it had been idle all night),
> but figured, no big deal, ext3 &c can handle it. However the problem
> seems to be gnome.
>
> After booting, when I logged in from gdm, I first got an error from
> `gconf' than it couldn't lock this file:
>
> ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior
>
> Hitting `OK' just went back to gdm, and logging again yielded the same
> result. Judging from the name, I figured it was just a lock file, and
> could be removed, so I removed it and tried logging it again. Whoops.
>
> Now it gives me a different error upon startup and displays a default
> configuration, none of my panels, background, anything. Here's the
> error dialog that pops up (it actually pops up a bunch of times, and I
> hit the `Details' button to get the cryptic sounding messages).
>
> An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-panel. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
>
> Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> ...
>
> So:
>
> (1) Can anyone suggest a way for me to get back to normal?
Any interesting gconf related messages in log files in /var/log/ ? (use
something like zgrep -l gconf /var/log/*log* to check)
> (2) Is Gnome's error recovery really this bad, or is something wrong
> with my setup?
Even a journalling filesystem can't guarantee perfect recovery of
accidents.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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