Ubuntu 9.10 Error popup: Evolution-alarm-notify

February 11th, 2010 by Crimm

Recently, in Ubuntu 9.10 I was getting a pop up in Ubuntu that stated there was a problem with evolution-alarm-notify.

More details provided were something along the text that this person was getting:

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-8GFKPqutfI: 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-8GFKPqutfI: Connection refused)

Basically it was a constant popup about Evolution-alarm-notify. Here’s the fix:

Run this in a terminal: mv ~/.gconfd/saved_state saved_state.old

Thanks to this post for the solution

I hope that helps someone out there.

Author:  Crimm

Software engineer (PHP, Bat, VBS), Sr. Systems Admin, Techie, Father, Gamer, Anime watcher (Wannabe Otaku), & full of geek!

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  • James Liebow

    I’m getting the same message and it’s preventing me from logging in.  How would I enter the code if I can’t log in?

  • http://crimm.me Crimm

    How is it preventing you from logging in?

  • James Liebow

    Eh, I sorted it out but it was popping up before the log in box so I could not get into desktop.  I ended up starting it in text only mode and used your tip to solve it.  It was just frustrating as a first time ubuntu user to try to fix my friend’s computer… but I got it.