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Gnome-terminal error

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lj1488
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Gnome-terminal error

#1 Post by lj1488 »

When loading root terminal in Lenny on a machine I literally put together with spare parts (Intel Celeron 2.53, 1.5g ram) I keep getting the following error.


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

When I click details I get
"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.)"

Everything I am reading from my Google searches is telling me that others with the same problem solved it with a clean install. I really dont want to do that. 1) that just seems like the lazy way out. How am I going to learn anything new if I clean install every time I encounter a problem. 2) I have put many hours into this install and would really hate to start all over.

I would also like to point out that my desktop background seems to have disappeared. Not sure if one thing has to do with the other but I believe it does...

lj1488
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Re: Gnome-terminal error

#2 Post by lj1488 »

I'm not sure if this will help but

http://paste.debian.net/82724/

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MeanDean
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Re: Gnome-terminal error

#3 Post by MeanDean »

Is the system up to date?

lj1488
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Re: Gnome-terminal error

#4 Post by lj1488 »

As of 20:00 yesterday, yes

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Re: Gnome-terminal error

#5 Post by lj1488 »

Speaking of update This is what I just got when I ran it today

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Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/lenny/Release.gpg  Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/lenny/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2  Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/lenny/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2  Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

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