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allorder

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From: Québec,Canada

Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 14

export EDITOR=gedit && sudo -E visudo

I upgraded gnome today and I tried to run visudo (like I did before gnome 2.24) with gedit (export EDITOR=gedit && sudo -E visudo) and it display this error 5 times:

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://www.gnome.org/projects/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.)

gedit open after, visudo doesnt give me any error.

any idea ?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: export EDITOR=gedit && sudo -E visudo

None so far, but you should search the forum for "gconf orbit stale nfs locks" and keep an eye on those other threads.

Last edited by byte (2008-10-22 23:08:58)

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Re: export EDITOR=gedit && sudo -E visudo

I upgraded gnome today and I tried to run visudo (like I did before gnome 2.24) with gedit (export EDITOR=gedit && sudo -E visudo) and it display this error 5 times:

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://www.gnome.org/projects/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.)

gedit open after, visudo doesnt give me any error.

any idea ?

Have you tried restarting?

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allorder

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From: Québec,Canada

Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 14

Re: export EDITOR=gedit && sudo -E visudo

None so far, but you should search the forum for "gconf orbit stale nfs locks" and keep an eye on those other threads.

thanks I didnt find another thread before asking

Have you tried restarting?

yes I did the upgrade,restarted and got this error
but I looked at another post it seem its a gnome 2.24 bug and a gnome develloper is looking at it.

MarCustomized

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From: Detroit, MI

Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 116

Re: export EDITOR=gedit && sudo -E visudo

If you're just trying to edit your sudoers file easily [non-vi], you could create a symlink from Vi to Nano.  Just delete the symlink when you're done editing.