Bug#544009: [CRASH] Uncaught exception GError in Frontend/Gtk/ui.py:741

[Miles Bader]

Stephan Peijnik <debian at sp.or.at> writes:
> Oh, by the way, the bug you reported is somehow related to
> update-manager not being able to contact the gconf server. This could
> mean that your gconf server is for some reason broken. I have
> encountered this problem when the update-manager code was on an NFS
> partition, but I couldn't really reproduce the bug as it didn't occur
> with every start of update-manager.
>
> I am just curious, are you running GNOME or another window manager? Is
> your /usr partition on NFS?

I mostly use gnome:  I use gnome-session, gnome-panel, whatever WM
gnome-session starts (used to be metacity, now compiz) and various gnome
apps -- however I _don't_ run nautilus to manage the "desktop" (i.e., no
icons on my screen, etc).  I dunno how that affects gconf.

My home directory (and thus, I guess, the gconf database) is in NFS, but
/usr is on a local disk.

Thanks,

-Miles

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