[Bug 367169] Re: GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; durring ssh X11 forwarding

[Keith Buel]

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:

keith at 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
keith at mediabox:~$ 
keith at mediabox:~$ 
keith at mediabox:~$ cd .dbus/session-bus/
keith at 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
keith at mediabox:~/.dbus/session-bus$ sudo chown keith:keith ee707f95157e78e7eaaa1e9149f0ecc7-10
[sudo] password for keith: 
keith at 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
keith at mediabox:~/.dbus/session-bus$ gedit
^C
keith at 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....

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GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; durring ssh X11 forwarding
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