GConf is out of order

[Schmolch]

Hi!

I have some trouble with gconf-"stuff"
No gnome-apps work anymore.

This is the funny error-message:
Failed to launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process "/var/tmp/portage/gconf-2.2.0/image//usr/libexec/gconfd-2" (No such file or directory)

I deleted all $home/.gconf -stuff and /var/tmp/* and remerged gconf and gnome-session, but this (guess what) didnt help (not that i think i did something intelligent).

I have no clue about this stuff, can anyone tell a dumb person (yes im pretty dumb) what to do?

oh and btw.. same error for root which seems odd because i only played around with the user's config.


thx in advance

[David_Escott]

What versions of portage and gconf do you have installed?
Have you synced up your tree recently?
What happens when you start up a regular Xsession and run gconfd?

The errors indicate that gconf thinks it is in the directory where portage built it but not on the system.

[Schmolch]

hi and thx for your reply.

im running latest gentoo unstable, which is
portage 2.0.47-r10 and
gconf-2.2.0
syncing up my tree every day

locate gconfd shows me

/usr/bin/gconfd-1
/usr/libexec/gconfd-2

but gconfd-1 is no longer there, for some reason it disappeared.
there is no gconfd* in my path.

is this looking like an easy answer for the cause of the problem?

Maybe gconfd-1 is in another place now, lets see:
Nope, no gconfd-1 on the whole /

Well.. ill just copy one from a a few days old /-backup and see what happens then.

hmm... i cant run the copied gconfd-1 because of a error with shared libraries libconf-something not found.

But.. but.. i remerged gconf several times!!

[David_Escott]

If you just ran

[Schmolch]

ok i emerged gconf-1.
When i start gcfond-1 before, im getting rid of the error, but there come lots of new errors like "CORBA blablabla cannot connect to configuration server /var/tmp/blablabla".

That specific corba-error can be found on other threads, but what helped there doesnt help me.

[David_Escott]

It sounds like your gnome1 tree may have messed up.

[Schmolch]

no change.

i can spawn gconfd-1, but not gconfd-2
If i spawn gconfd-1 all the fonts of gtk2 apps disappear, but maybe this is normal cause gconfd-2 should do this.

If i try to spawn gconfd-2 i get still the error:
Failed to spawn the config server (gconfd): Failed to launch configuration
server: Failed to execute child process "/var/tmp/portage/gconf-2.2.0/image//usr/libexec/gconfd-2" (No such file or
directory)

same error when i not try to spawn anything before launching a gnome-app.