Re: help! broken gconf

[Mathew Yeates <mathew comma jpl nasa gov>]

interesting things from my system call trace

open("/tmp/orbit-mathew/oaf-register.lock", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0700) = 6
open("/tmp/orbit-mathew/reg.IDL:OAF_ActivationContext:1.0-local", 
O_RDONLY, 0666) = 7
open("/tmp/orbit-mathew/reg.IDL:OAF_ObjectDirectory:1.0-local", 
O_RDONLY, 0666) errno = 2 (No such file or directory)
open("/tmp/orbit-mathew/reg.IDL:OAF_ObjectDirectory:1.0", O_RDONLY, 
0666) errno = 2 (No such file or directory)

Mathew Yeates wrote:

> Sheesh, if gconf has a problem.. EVERYTHING breaks!
>
> I'm trying to run galeon which requires gnome 1. My machine crashed 
> and ever
> since then, I can't start the app.
>
> I get
> ** WARNING **: GConf error:
> No database available to save your configuration:
> Unable to store a value at key '/apps/galeon/gconf_test'
>
>
> I've tried everything. I've removed /tmp/orbit-mathew. I've kill 
> gconfd-1 and
> all oaf processes.
>
> Here is what happens when I try gconftool-1
> gconftool-1 --get /apps/galeon/Handlers/Downloading/download_dir
> ~
>
> gconftool-1 --set /apps/galeon/Handlers/Downloading/download_dir "~" 
> --type string
> Error setting value: No database available
>
> Help!
> What do I do??
>
> Mathew
>
>
>
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