Re: ORBit-0.5.13 TCP/IP networking

[J Maynard Gelinas <gelinas lns mit edu>]

   OK Michael, I was completely wrong. A netstat -ao definitely shows
ORBit sockets in a LISTEN state, and the problem on my desktop has gone
away. I've just made this change on our deployed systems. Thanks for your
help and sorry if I wasted any of your time. :)

Best,
--Maynard

On 23 Jul 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Maynard,
> 
> On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 12:29, J Maynard Gelinas wrote:
> >    I'm deploying a large number of desktop workstations which run 
> > Redhat-7.3 and provide home directories across AFS.
> 
> 	Sounds good.
> 
> > One problem I keep 
> > seeing is that on login certain GNOME applications complain about being 
> > unable to connect to ORBit and suggest turning on TCP/IP networking in 
> > ORBit config. Searching around the net I've found:
> 
> 	Ok - I hypothesise this is anything that uses gconf, such as galeon and
> gtkhtml.
> 
> > http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net/faq.html#orbit
> > 
> > Which states that I should add "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" to /etc/orbitrc or
> > ~/.orbitrc. Unfortunately, this does not resolve the problem.
> 
> 	It's the correct fix. It seems likely that there's a stale gconfd-1 or
> gconfd-2 process lying around; you need to ensure these are killed
> before logging on again.
> 
> > RH73 ships
> > with ORBit-0.5.13 by default. I've looked through the SRPM spec file and 
> > source to see if I can find something but to no avail. Can anyone point 
> > either clue me in or point me to the correct docs so I can solve this 
> > problem?
> 
> 	More details on your problem would be good, warning messages etc.
> 
> 	HTH,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
>