MySQL Bugs: #5009: crash due to gconf lock failure

Bug #5009	crash due to gconf lock failure
Submitted:	12 Aug 2004 1:50	Modified:	2 Sep 2004 16:50
Reporter:	Danny Rathjens	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Query Browser	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	1.0.5-alpha	OS:	Linux (RH9)
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The query browser would crash whenever I double clicked on a function or syntax node.
The exact errors are pasted below.

GConf Error: 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/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-dkr/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-dkr/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
GConf Error: 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/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-dkr/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-dkr/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: 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/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-dkr/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-dkr/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

aborting...
./mysql-query-browser: line 9: 5231 Aborted $MYPATH/mysql-query-browser-bin

How to repeat:
Double click on a function or syntax node. when your gconf lock files are located in ~/.gconfd rather than in /tmp.

Suggested fix:
It is looking for gconf lock in the wrong place(/tmp/gconf-username). So I just did ln -s ~/.gconfd /tmp/gconfd-dkr and it is working ok now. I've never used gconf before, perhaps it is just a version discrepency for the location of the lock files.
I am using a rehdat 9 box which has GConf2-2.2.0-1 and GConf-1.0.9-10

I verified this using RH 9 (2.4.21 #12 SMP).  I got this message as soon as I started the app:

GConf Error: 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/ for information. (Details -  1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-matt/
lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/
gconfd-matt/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

and this error when clicking on a function:

gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: 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/ for information. (Details -  1: IOR file '/
tmp/gconfd-matt/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: 
IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-matt/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or 
directory)

It also segfaulted when I tried to open the connection editor.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of that product, which you can download at 
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/