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dinuzz
March 10th, 2010, 10:41 PM
Hi there
I'm installing Sun Virtualbox and get the following error message. The install does not stop or crash, but just don't know what to do about this message:




An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for frontend. 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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-WisHR68kfM: Connection refused)
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: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-WisHR68kfM: Connection refused)
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: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-WisHR68kfM: Connection refused)
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: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-WisHR68kfM: Connection refused)
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: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-WisHR68kfM: Connection refused)


Installed Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 and most recent Virtualbox.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers

s.fox
March 10th, 2010, 11:27 PM
Hello,

Do you have gconf-defaults-service installed? If not I would try installing that :)

-Silver Fox

dinuzz
March 11th, 2010, 03:18 PM
ok - two questions:

- how do I determine, if this is already installed?
- if it is not, how do I install it?

thanks