On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Anthony Houston > <anthony.houston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am running Fedora 11; clean new install on new hard drive. >> >> Name : firefox >> Arch : i586 >> Version : 3.5.3 >> Release : 1.fc11 >> >> Firefox will not start from the desktop icon but will start from the CLI >> but only as su. Even then I get the following errors: >> >> (firefox:2295): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session >> manager: >> >> None of the authentication protocols specified are supported. >> >> 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.) >> >> I tried to follow the gnome url listed in the error but could not find >> some of the references on my computer. >> >> I have performed the following to make sure my system is uptodate: >> >> su >> yum update --enablerepo=rpm*g --enablerepo=u*g --skip-broken -v >> reboot >> >> There are MANY threads on FedorumForum about this with all the same >> suggestions. I logged this as a bug with Mozilla but they say it isn't >> and that I need to go back to the packager (fedora). >> >> Any suggestions please. >> > > Check permissions for the user. Do "ls -la /home/user_name". I forgot to ask if you tried deleting the .mozilla directory in /home or reinstalliing firefox. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
