From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 13:19:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DB21065673 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76118FC13 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LQLwd-0006Ey-Mj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:39 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.238]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LQLwZ-0000YS-8R for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:31 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0NDJUoA085220 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:30 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n0NDJP5d085219 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:25 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:25 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090123131925.GA85167@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Score: -0.6 X-Spam-Level: / Subject: Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:19:41 -0000 I run FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, and I've XAUTHORITY set up: % echo $XAUTHORITY /home/mexas/.Xauthority I've gconf2-2.24.0 and ORBit2-2.14.16 Whenever I try to start a browser, e.g. firefox2 or kazehakase I get this message: 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory) 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory) Sometimes the browser eventually opens up, but sometimes it doesn't. In addition, the time /var/tmp/orbit-mexas is 1970: # ls -al /var/tmp/|grep orbit-mexas drwx------ 2 mexas wheel 1024 1 Jan 1970 orbit-mexas # And where is that random number comes from in /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21? I've % xauth -v list Using authority file /home/mexas/.Xauthority mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 27cb8258eb7feb6291ba680547603a68 mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 9f784d8ddca2a8f9deaefd12c809fc51 What's going on? Give me a clue please. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423