Re: Could not open network socket with gnome apps

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:46:24PM -0400 or thereabouts, John H. wrote:
> 
> With GNOME apps, I get the error
>  While connecting to session manager:
> Could not open network socket.
> It goes away after restarting X, but then comes back.
> FC2.

Does this happen all the time, or only some of the time?
Does it happen after a specific thing you type or click?

Does it happen when you are indeed using a network (ie,
connecting to another computer), or when it is just running 
things on your desktop computer? (X actually uses networking 
all the time: the computer makes network connections to -itself-, 
even if it is not on a network apart from that, which is why 
you can get errors about networks when your machine is not 
on a network!) 

Finally: does this happen when you have been using su,
su -x, sudo, ssh or anything which lets you change which
user you are running as? Sometimes X can be picky about
that, too.

Telsa