Monday, May 2, 2011

GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit

After the server restart, when I entered to VNC I got the following 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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-QS6NzEDBEh: Connection refused)

In the /var/log/messages

gconfd (root-21343): Bad permissions 777 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root
gconfd (root-21343): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-root has a problem, gconfd can't use it

Action Plan:
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1.Change permissions to 700  on directory /tmp/gconfd-root
2. Restart the VNC server
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 10, 2012 at 8:03 AM

    same error came for me but it was for orbit dir in /tmp, after changing permissions of that dir to 700 error gone , thanks dude !!

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  2. UnknownJune 13, 2014 at 3:02 PM

    Thanks lot....

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