System crash

[callum shipley]

Hi. My name's Callum and there's something wrong with my Ubuntu 8.10 system. I think tinkered where I shouldn't have! Yes, I'm absolutely clueless about these things.

This is the error message that pops up whenever I click on anything:

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gconf-editor. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

I cannot open any application, folder or file. Is there a way to repair the system without losing my data?

Thank you!

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[ritz-2]

Hi

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 20:53 +0700, callum shipley wrote:

>  Hi. My name's Callum and there's something wrong with my Ubuntu 8.10
> system. I think tinkered where I shouldn't have! Yes, I'm absolutely
> clueless about these things.
>
> This is the error message that pops up whenever I click on anything:
>
> An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information
> for gconf-editor. Some of your configuration settings may not work
> properly.
>
> 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: Server ping error:
> IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

Most likely a stale lock file. Try removing orbit-<username> from /tmp.


>
> I cannot open any application, folder or file. Is there a way to
> repair the system without losing my data?
>
> Thank you!
> _______________________________________________
> gconf-list mailing list
> gconf-list@...
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list
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