Re: Unidentified subject!

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 tshanno@orion.it.luc.edu wrote:

> I have been trying to run several gnome programs over the network on
> my laptop.  Basically, what I have been doing is starting X on the
> laptop, telneting to my desktop in an xterm, setting the DISPLAY
> variable to the display on my laptop and starting the program in
> question (lets say gnomecard).
>
> This works nearly all the time with other programs (such as netscape)
> but has been crashing with most gnome programs with the message:
> 
> ---------------
> ** WARNING **: Could not get name service!
> 
> ** WARNING **: Could not get name service!
> 
> ** ERROR **: file goad.c: line 1226 (goad_server_register): assertion failed: (name_server != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL)
> aborting...
> Aborted (core dumped)
> --------------
> 
> Any ideas?

What versions of the GNOME packages do you have installed on the remote
and local machines?

-- Elliot
It is easier to turn excellent functionality into excellent appearance
than excellent appearance into excellent functionality.