GRAMPS not starting from KDE icon

[John S. Wheeler]

I am using Mandriva Spring 2009.

I was using Gramps to import a GED file when I got a file corruption  
message and Gramps crashed.  I can no longer start gramps from the KDE  
icon.  The only way to start it is to log into a terminal as root and when  
I do I get the following error message, although GRAMPS goes ahead and  
loads.


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: Did not  
receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not  
send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply  
timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

Thank you for any suggestions.

john




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[Benny Malengier]

2009/10/28 John S. Wheeler <John@...>:
> I am using Mandriva Spring 2009.
>
> I was using Gramps to import a GED file when I got a file corruption
> message and Gramps crashed.  I can no longer start gramps from the KDE
> icon.  The only way to start it is to log into a terminal as root and when
> I do I get the following error message, although GRAMPS goes ahead and
> loads.

Gramps does not need Gconf (but attempts to upgrade old 2.2.x settings
from gconf) since version 3.0, which version are you using?
Do not run as root, that is not a solution in linux!

Here it says http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/gconf-error-failed-to-contact-configuration-server-193590/
to install the package
gconf-defaults-service
Be careful that you do not install a lot of gnome dependencies that
way if you are a KDE user.

I would not know why the menu start stops working. If you right click
on the menu option, it should say that gramps is started with
exec = gramps %F
and that would be the same as you start from a terminal

Can you attach an error when you start from terminal as not root?
It might be that your last family tree is loaded on startup, and due
to the GEDCOM import error, that fails every time. To make that go
away, rename the gramps ini file. So rename ~/.gramps/keys.ini into
keys.ini.old or so, and try again.

Benny

> 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: Did not
> receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not
> send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
> timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
>
> Thank you for any suggestions.
>
> john
>
>
>
>
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[Benny Malengier]

2009/10/30 John S. Wheeler <John@...>:
> IT WORKS!!!  Thank you very much.  I tried deleting the keys.ini file first
> and that was all it needed. Noticed that I had two identical family tree
> files when it opened (don't know if this had anything to do with the
> problem).

The name of the family tree is an attribute of the family tree, so for
GRAMPS there should be no problem to have two identical names.
Perhaps the automatic load on start fails then, I would have to try it to know.

For us I think it is best avoided :-)

Benny

> Again, Thanks
> john
>
> btw.  The only way I got that error message was to log into root from a
> terminal.  Just using a terminal (without being root) would simply hang.
>
>
>  On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:46:09 -0400, Benny Malengier
> <benny.malengier@...> wrote:
>
>> 2009/10/28 John S. Wheeler <John@...>:
>>>
>>> I am using Mandriva Spring 2009.
>>>
>>> I was using Gramps to import a GED file when I got a file corruption
>>> message and Gramps crashed.  I can no longer start gramps from the KDE
>>> icon.  The only way to start it is to log into a terminal as root and
>>> when
>>> I do I get the following error message, although GRAMPS goes ahead and
>>> loads.
>>
>> Gramps does not need Gconf (but attempts to upgrade old 2.2.x settings
>> from gconf) since version 3.0, which version are you using?
>> Do not run as root, that is not a solution in linux!
>>
>> Here it says
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/gconf-error-failed-to-contact-configuration-server-193590/
>> to install the package
>> gconf-defaults-service
>> Be careful that you do not install a lot of gnome dependencies that
>> way if you are a KDE user.
>>
>> I would not know why the menu start stops working. If you right click
>> on the menu option, it should say that gramps is started with
>> exec = gramps %F
>> and that would be the same as you start from a terminal
>>
>> Can you attach an error when you start from terminal as not root?
>> It might be that your last family tree is loaded on startup, and due
>> to the GEDCOM import error, that fails every time. To make that go
>> away, rename the gramps ini file. So rename ~/.gramps/keys.ini into
>> keys.ini.old or so, and try again.
>>
>> Benny
>>>
>>> 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: Did not
>>> receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not
>>> send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the
>>> reply
>>> timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
>>>
>>> Thank you for any suggestions.
>>>
>>> john
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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