Need Help! config files seems corrupted

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I am very new to Linux and have just switched to Linux from Windows for a while.
Ever since my brother turned off the power of my computer while it was in the midst of hibernating, I have been experiencing a obvious slowdown in the computer (probably due to the error messages). Everything’s settings seem to have been corrupted. The error messages always write that settings for so and so process cannot be saved…
Seems its COBRA error
Also, the taskbar is gone.
Here’s the error message by Nautilus
Adding client to server’s list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
Adding client to server’s list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
Adding client to server’s list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
Adding client to server’s list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
Adding client to server’s list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
I also have a screenshot, though I can’t seem to upload it.
Currently, I am booting from the live disk.
I did not make a backup of my system, though i have one of my files.

What Should I Do?
Thanks!

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Going on some brief googling it seems related to .gconfd and the suggestions are to delete the files in there. They seem to be saved states so seems it would make sense to what you’re describing and the way to the problem.

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jeremm adjusted his/her AFDB on Thursday 16 Jul 2009 16:36 to write:

> Adding client to server’s list failed, CORBA error

have a look in

/tmp/

for a file tht looks something like

orbit-<username>

delete that name and then restart the x server or you can just reboot if you
wish.

Not sure if this will help but I seem to remember that from a long, long,
time ago in a different universe far, far away :slight_smile:

HTH

Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum

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tried your solution but didn’t work
Now GNOME cannot work at all :frowning:

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tried baskitcaise’s but it did not work
instead i have more errors… :frowning:
and it lags even more… esp in startup now

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After that, I tried deleting all the files in ¬/.gconf
did not work
nothing visibly changed

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I did type ~/.gconfd

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tried that too
Nvm
I have backed up all my files anyway.
going to install 11.2

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I’m out of ideas if you google the error message you see it crop up across a few distros so I think it is gnome related. As for the fix the 2 suggested here seem to be the prominent ones.

Sorry I couldn’t offer any other advice, just seemed the saved state was the likely culprit.

But I guess with a backup a reinstall maybe easier.