Public bug reported: After upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid, rebooting, and logging in, I see a black screen with numerous error windows, displaying the following messages for nearly every gnome app that runs on startup:
"An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for [gnome app]. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly." and "GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to gconf daemon: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))" These errors appear whenever I attempt to run any app that relies on gnome (for example, I can run xterm but not gnome-terminal), and make Ubuntu nearly unusable for most tasks. I am kind of a Linux newbie, but if you can tell me how to find whatever log files would be relevant here from the terminal I'll post them if I can. I can't get online from Ubuntu right now, and this is my only machine, which complicates the process a bit. To reproduce: Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (I am using Wubi; I don't know if that is relevant), reboot, log in. There are other users reporting the same bug at http://ge.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?p=6197006 . Also, there is a bug affecting only gnome-terminal that may be related at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/298426 . ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Gconf errors in most gnome apps after upgrade to 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303461 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
