firefox3 error, gconf related on none gnome system

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:28:28 -0500, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de>  
wrote:

> Starting firefox3, I always get this annoying 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/

Did you read error message? Have you visit to this URL yet? There is  
FAQ/Troubleshooting in there related with this error.

> for information. (Details -  1: IOR file '/var/tmp/gconfd-jan/lock/ior'  
> not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2:  
> IOR file '/var/tmp/gconfd-jan/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no  
> gconfd located: No such file or directory)
>
> I do not run gnome, but have gconf2 installed as a dependency to many  
> application. /var/tmp/gconfd-jan/lock/ is an empty directory for me.
>
> How can I fix it? Do you need more details?

http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_thread.php?list=freebsd-gnome&id=1496892&thread=yes

Cheers,
Mezz

> Otherwise, firefox3 seems to be running great. Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Jan Henrik


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