On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:08 -0400, George Reeke wrote: <lots of deletion> > Thanks, > George Reeke > > Here is the text of my error message: > The application "gconf-editor" attempted to change an aspect of your > configuration that your system administrator or operating system > vendor does not allow you to change. Some of the settings you have > selected may not take effect, or may not be restored next time you use > the application. > > No database available to save your configuration: Unable to store a > value at key '/apps/evolution/shell/view_defaults/height', as the > configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common > causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/ > path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we > mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is > misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory > or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the > server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two > gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), > logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may > help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the > problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, > and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote > CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, > check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. > There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a > lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage > locations such as ~/.gconf > I think at this point I'd leave Gnome entirely for TWM or KDE or whatever else you have on your machine, shut down gconftool-2 with "gconftool-2 --shutdown", do the same for evolution, "evolution --force-shutdown", and then try setting my desired values with gconf-editor.
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