This started happening to me immediately after I installed gparted - installed daily CD 9/26/09. After that package, applications that required admin privileges came up with additional options to remember the password, etc, but wouldn't accept my password - can't even launch the terminal from the menu, but I can launch things as root by Alt-F2 gksu and then launching whatever I need like gnome-terminal...etc. I made sure that my user name was still part of the admin group, but I wouldn't know where to begin beyond just a few basics... I'm getting all sorts of errors when just trying to run gnome-system-log:
root@lappy1537:/home/jeff# gnome-system-log
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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gnome-system-log:ERROR:logview-prefs.c:540:logview_prefs_store_fontsize: assertion failed: (fontsize > 0)
Aborted (core dumped)
And when I run gksu from this terminal, and try to run 'synaptic' as user 'jeff'
root@lappy1537:/home/jeff# gksu
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
(gksu:21673): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /tmp/libgksu-K2lcLY/.Xauthority
/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /tmp/libgksu-K2lcLY/.Xauthority
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
No protocol specified
(synaptic:21700): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
Hopefully this is useful to somebody... because I don't know what's going on.
This started happening to me immediately after I installed gparted - installed daily CD 9/26/09. After that package, applications that required admin privileges came up with additional options to remember the password, etc, but wouldn't accept my password - can't even launch the terminal from the menu, but I can launch things as root by Alt-F2 gksu and then launching whatever I need like gnome-terminal. ..etc. I made sure that my user name was still part of the admin group, but I wouldn't know where to begin beyond just a few basics... I'm getting all sorts of errors when just trying to run gnome-system-log:
root@lappy1537: /home/jeff# gnome-system-log projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) log:ERROR: logview- prefs.c: 540:logview_ prefs_store_ fontsize: assertion failed: (fontsize > 0)
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://
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://
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://
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://
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://
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://
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gnome-system-
Aborted (core dumped)
And when I run gksu from this terminal, and try to run 'synaptic' as user 'jeff'
root@lappy1537: /home/jeff# gksu projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0)
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://
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://
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://
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://
(gksu:21673): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0) K2lcLY/ .Xauthority K2lcLY/ .Xauthority projects. gnome.org/ gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg. org/CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE: 1.0)
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://
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://
/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /tmp/libgksu-
/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /tmp/libgksu-
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://
No protocol specified
(synaptic:21700): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
Hopefully this is useful to somebody... because I don't know what's going on.