Re: Weird configuration issue.

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:49:14PM +0000, John N S Gill wrote:
> I'm running into a weird gnumeric problem relating to configuration
> settings.
>
> I'm running gnumeric on a machine I have ssh'ed to (rather than the
> client I am working on -- will spare you the details).
>
> When I fire up gnumeric I get a dialog which pops up with the warning
> below + when I ask for details I get all the CORBA error stuff.
>
> Now I can run gnumeric quite happily if I log on as a different user, it
> is just selected users that are having grief.
>
> I've tried logging out of X, killing any processes that look as though
> they might possibly have anything to do with gconf and removing any
> mention of gnumeric from the stuff in ~/.gconf but no joy as yet.
>
> If anyone out there has any suggestions about what to try next (i'm
> wondering about sacrificing a chicken or two..)  I'd be most grateful.
>
> John
>
> An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
> gnumeric. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
>
> Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:
> IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:
> IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:

----- Forwarded message from Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> -----

From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>

If you're running gnumeric on a different machine from your login
session but with the same homedir, you have to use gconf local locks
(the default in 2.4) or you have to open up TCP for ORBit. See
www.gnome.org/projects/gconf