On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 07:53 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:45 -0700, Les wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 15:36 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > Running GNOME in fully updated F8 on a dual-core x86_64. When I log in,
> > > several apps or applets produce pop-up error boxes with the following
> > > text:
> > >
> > > An error occurred while loading or saving configuration
> > > information for <applet>. Some of your configuration settings
> > > may not work properly.
> > >
> > > Clicking the "details" button produces one to several occurrences of the
> > > message:
> > >
> > > Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:
> > > IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> > >
> > > This started a while back, and it would occur on the first login after
> > > boot, but subsequent logins would work fine. More recently, it's
> > > started happening on every login. The applets that produce the error
> > > vary, but they include
> > >
> > > - Power Manager
> > > - gnome-terminal
> > > - Evolution's calendar/alarm app
> > > - nm-applet
> > >
> > > and others.
> > >
> > > Anybody have a clue what's going on? Which component should I BZ?
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Matthew Saltzman
> > Have you attempted to create a new user to see if a new account
> > experiences the same issue? In my experience,
> > such failures are the result of a memory flaw, either hardware or a
> > program that is overwriting system memory some how due to a bad
> > malloc/free frame. It need not be any of the programs you are currently
> > running, because such an error only manifests when the affected system
> > routine or memory is accessed again.
>
> Interesting. I ran a pass of Memtest86+ and fsck. No errors reported
> by either utility, but the CORBA errors have not recurred.
>
> We'll just wait and see.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
So finally, I opened System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions, and
I discovered a couple hundred krb5-auth-dialog processes. I killed them
all (but one), and saved the session. Now login happens much faster and
there don't seem to be CORBA errors.
Still a mystery: How did all those processes get there?
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Les H
> >
> >
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
