28787 2003-09-15 07:14 0000 gtkhtml problem -- gconfd-1 is not started 2004-08-12 09:41:47 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux GNOME unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 pilla@gentoo.org gnome@gentoo.org alexgentoo@blamey.freeserve.co.uk craig.lawson@alum.mit.edu deviantgeek@gmail.com eldad@gentoo.org gentoo-bugs2@carldunham.com jamesj@shadyvale.org jsado_sc3@comcast.net matt@daubenspeck.org nicholas@slackers.net pauldv@gentoo.org plalonde@overnet.qc.ca Richard.Waite@matrixmonkey.co.uk sam@ericom.be tester@gentoo.org wleggette@kaylix.net xfr-bug@east308.net pilla@gentoo.org 2003-09-15 07:14:39 0000 I had this problem with gnucash-1.8.5 after upgrading to gnome 2.4. Yeah, I know I am using BMG, but it is happening to other people too. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83940&highlight=tcp+networking+orbit http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83968&highlight=tcp+networking+orbit When starting gnucash, it fails with a message gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit) aborting... Aborted But if you manually start gconfd-1 before starting gnucash, it works. It used to work with gnome 2.2 without needing manual start of gconfd-1 deviantgeek@gmail.com 2003-09-17 09:07:43 0000 This happens when many Gnome apps start (check your vc for X errors). A bit confusing really. liquidx@gentoo.org 2003-09-17 15:38:51 0000 it seems to be happening on gnucash-1.8.6, gnome-2.4 from portage and gconf 1.0.8-r5 and gconf-2.4.0.1. to reproduce, you have to start gnucash and goto report menu and choose anything that generates something, like "account summary". actually, it seems like gconfd-2 is stopping gconfd-1 from starting. i'm not sure how significant that is, but according to my syslog: Sep 17 23:33:54 mcvaio (liquidx-31265): starting (version 2.4.0.1), pid 31265 user 'liquidx' Sep 17 23:33:55 mcvaio (liquidx-31265): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gconfd-liquidx/lock/ior': probably another process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured (Resource temporarily unavailable) Sep 17 23:33:55 mcvaio (liquidx-31265): FIXME: Need to shutdown linc connections ... which is a little weird since gconfd-2 is already running but on pid 4419. witr@rwwa.com 2003-10-08 06:27:41 0000 The same thing happens with galeon: <~>$ galeon GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit) Is there a workaround? pilla@gentoo.org 2003-10-08 07:02:54 0000 for gnucash, I just have to manually start gconfd-1 before gnucash Like % gconfd-1 >& /dev/null & % gnucash & pauldv@gentoo.org 2003-10-21 04:31:13 0000 Actually gconftool-1 --spawn allready fails. It seems to be that this problem is the same as discussed here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gconf-list/2003-April/msg00022.html plalonde@overnet.qc.ca 2003-10-21 16:00:00 0000 *** Bug 31100 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** cerrid@sprintpcs.com 2004-01-04 11:26:20 0000 In Bug#30793, Martin Marshall posted a startup script for Gnucash to get around this. I found modify the /usr/bin/gnucash script using Martin's workaround for this issue as follows: #!/bin/sh PATH="/usr/libexec/gnucash/overrides:${PATH}" export PATH GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED="no" export GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED gconfd-1 & exec "gnucash" "$@" killall gconfd-1 This seems to solve the problem for now until they can fix the Gconf-1.0.9 issue. tester@gentoo.org 2004-02-03 13:13:39 0000 Patch gconf 1.0.9 with the patch at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gconf-list/2003-April/msg00033.html seems to be the proper solution for this. Any reason why it hasnt been done yet? liquidx@gentoo.org 2004-02-03 14:22:30 0000 one thing i did notice is that 1.0.9 isn't in portage yet .. i'll look into whether that patch solves the problem here .. tester@gentoo.org 2004-02-03 14:41:39 0000 the patch is not included in 1.0.9.. which is already quite old... liquidx@gentoo.org 2004-02-04 07:32:17 0000 i've added 1.0.9 (w/ mdk patch) to portage now. can you please try that and see if it works now? it works find for me browsing gnucash help etc. liquidx@gentoo.org 2004-02-04 07:32:47 0000 *** Bug 30793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** liquidx@gentoo.org 2004-02-04 07:36:28 0000 *** Bug 40077 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** tester@gentoo.org 2004-02-04 11:01:32 0000 fixes the problem for me... liquidx@gentoo.org 2004-03-06 05:00:41 0000 *** Bug 43300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** liquidx@gentoo.org 2004-03-06 05:01:28 0000 closing as gconf-1.0.9 is now in stable. liquidx@gentoo.org 2004-05-06 01:30:45 0000 *** Bug 49193 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** pilla@gentoo.org 2004-08-12 09:41:47 0000 Maybe a dependece for gconf >= 1.09 <= should be added. Is this possible?