GConf gconftool - spawn doesn't work

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9022199

  •  19-04-2021
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Question

Last time I started to having problem with gconftools, I'm using Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04 LTS

When I make command

gconftools-2 --spawn

I've gor an error:

Failed to spawn the configuration server (gconfd): 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: Not running within active session)

I deleted .gconf and tried again but it didn't work. Then I apt-get purge gconf2 gconf2-common and apt-get install gconf2 gconf2-common but that didn't help either. Any one get idea what is make gconf to falling?

Thanks for any help.

With regards

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Solution

It seems you have no dbus session running; try this:

# dbus-launch bash
# gconftool-2 --ping ; echo $?
2
# gconftool-2 --spawn
# gconftool-2 --ping ; echo $?
0
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