[SOLVED] OMG-- Desktop Manager

[PCessna]

I'm now almost sick -- GNOME won't load correctly because "Power manger" or something couldn't load -- It's now on a Windows 95ish looking interface.

So close to switching back to windows :-)

Any help please

[PCessna]

I'm now almost sick -- GNOME won't load correctly because "Power manger" or something couldn't load -- It's now on a Windows 95ish looking interface.

So close to switching back to windows :-)

Any help please
Exactly:
INSTALL PROBLEM!
The configuration defaults for power management have not correctly been configured yet! Please contact your administrator

[PCessna]

Can someone help me?

[PCessna]

Thanks for the help all

[gunashekar]

I suggest you post the details of your system and wait patiently for someone with the ability to help you looks at it.

[PCessna]

I suggest you post the details of your system and wait patiently for someone with the ability to help you looks at it.

Back to sweet old Windows.. I'll reinstall it later :P

[overdrank]

Back to sweet old Windows.. I'll reinstall it later :P

Thanks for the info and we will be here when and if you return. :)

[stevoo]

maybe a reistallation could save you time.
if you dont want to tweak around and look why there is a problem.

[Steptoenson]

Hi,

I seem to be experiencing similar problems to those mentioned. I do not wish to return to windows, but need simple, basic guidelines to help solve this, so that I can re-access my laptop.
Please read the information I emailed to gconf-list@gnome.org below;

Yesterday, when I went to shutdown my laptop, which is running Ubuntu 8.10, it seemed to freeze, so I forced it to turn off by holding down the power button. Later that day, when I tried to turn the laptop on, it logs on, takes me to login and password page, but then goes to a blank screen, with the following messages;

An error occured while loading or saving configuration information for evolution-alarm-notify. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

An error occured while loading or saving configuration information for update-notifier. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

The details for both these messages are;

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/ (mhtml:{5EECB62B-8D38-4A7E-A2DC-5052A4FA2CAD}mid://00000265/!x-usc:http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/) for information. (Details -1 : Could not send message to gconf daemon: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus))

There was also a message in the bottom right corner of the same screen;

Install problem!

The Configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator.


I have been to the suggested website, which is why I am sending you this email. I do not have any technical knowledge of computers, and could not figure out how to get all the information you requested, such as which version of GConf I have installed, Output of ps jaxwww / grep gconf, Output of gconf-sanity-check-1 or gconf-sanity-check-2, and what appears in user.*syslog.
I have tried to find out this information, but I do not know how to, and need very simple instructions to help me fix this problem.
I do hope you can be of assistance in this matter. I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Richard O'Connor