ubuntu-bug "GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server"

[Darxus]

Binary package hint: apport

# ubuntu-bug apt
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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Error showing url: Operation not supported

This error shows up after clicking "Send Report".

Attached apport output was created by running "apport-cli apt" and choosing "keep report".

[Darxus (darxus)]

Ignore the previous attachment, I think it's for the wrong bug, not sure what happened there. Apport output attached.

[Kiri (kiri)]

This happens with apport-cli as well, at least in experience with non-root user logged in.
Since apport must run as root, it is only usable when root is logged into X server.

[Kiri (kiri)]

apport-cli 1.9.2 in Karmic Koala Beta

[Ian! D. Allen (idallen)]

Ubuntu 9.10rc has this same problem if ubuntu-bug is run as root.
Running it as a non-priv user works fine.

[Darxus (darxus)]

Partial workaround: renice gconfd-2 to the minimum priority. That way your cpu will still be in constant use, but it'll let other processes have it when they want it.

Easiest way is to run top, find which line gconfd-2 is on, hit "r" for "renice", type in the PID from the PID column, then enter the new priority of 19, which is the lowest (or some arbitrarily high number, so you don't need to remember it's 19).

[Andy Smith (grifferz)]

I'm affected by this also, but this workaround doesn't work for me, so I'm unsure if it's the same thing. I'm on Lucid, upgraded in place from 8.04 LTS. I've never tried to report a bug with apport before so I don't know if it worked under 8.04.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for apport (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]