I looked into this more and did some research. There was a file in ~/.dbus/session-bus that was owned by root. I changed the ownership to me and the error went away, and the program popped up. Below is what I did:
ke...@mediabox:~$ gedit 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: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-kRVlcAThBv: Connection refused) ^C ke...@mediabox:~$ ke...@mediabox:~$ ke...@mediabox:~$ cd .dbus/session-bus/ ke...@mediabox:~/.dbus/session-bus$ ls -ltrh total 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 476 2009-04-24 10:41 ee707f95157e78e7eaaa1e9149f0ecc7-10 -rw-r--r-- 1 keith keith 476 2009-04-26 03:24 ee707f95157e78e7eaaa1e9149f0ecc7-11 -rw-r--r-- 1 keith keith 464 2009-04-27 19:31 ee707f95157e78e7eaaa1e9149f0ecc7-0 ke...@mediabox:~/.dbus/session-bus$ sudo chown keith:keith ee707f95157e78e7eaaa1e9149f0ecc7-10 [sudo] password for keith: ke...@mediabox:~/.dbus/session-bus$ ls -ltrh total 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 keith keith 476 2009-04-24 10:41 ee707f95157e78e7eaaa1e9149f0ecc7-10 -rw-r--r-- 1 keith keith 476 2009-04-26 03:24 ee707f95157e78e7eaaa1e9149f0ecc7-11 -rw-r--r-- 1 keith keith 464 2009-04-27 19:31 ee707f95157e78e7eaaa1e9149f0ecc7-0 ke...@mediabox:~/.dbus/session-bus$ gedit ^C ke...@mediabox:~/.dbus/session-bus$ It seems like an application run by root created that file in the session-bus folder... I don't know enough about dbus to understand why this is.... also hopefully i didn't hurt anything by changing the ownership to me. I doubt it because root would still be able touch it. This was a clean install, and i did very minimal things, so I'm wondering what would have written that file there. I this a bug that a program would have created a file in my home directory settings with root permissions? .... I guess i need to learn more about dbus.... -- GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; durring ssh X11 forwarding https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367169 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
