<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> Excellent! I'm glad someone else has this problem!! Please add any comments you can to this bugzilla: <A HREF="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119218">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119218</A> Are you using NFS mounted Home directories? Are you using NIS? Or is Gconf just that bad? On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 01:26, Marius Andreiana wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>Confirming this, 100% replicable. I fix it same way. Please make a bug and let me know the # On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 22:03, Tom Cross wrote: > We have Fedora Core 1 loaded on most/all of our desktops here. A few > desktops are giving me lots of trouble with Gconfd. People log into the > receptionist desk, logout of receptionist desk, log into their own > desktop and gconf busts big time: > > > There was an error starting GNOME Settings Daemon.... > The last error message was: > Child PRocess did not give an error message, unkown failure occurred. > > GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log > in. > > > > Then the panel apps start complaining (desktop switcher and tasklist). > This is what ~/.xsession-errors looks like: > > SESSION_MANAGER=local/receptionist.kendeco.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2683 > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 > > > > I usually "fix" it by hitting control-Alt-BackSpace, login as root, > clean out /tmp, reboot, and then they can log in again. But it is a > royal PAIN. > > Some Details: > We use GDM (DisallowTCP=false, NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS=false) > Home directories are NFS mounted. > DISPLAY is set to hostname:0 (as in receptionist.kendeco.com:0) > (this is so they can run apps remotely on our servers) > Authentication is using NIS > > > Any hints/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! > > -- > Tom Cross <tomc@cloudnet.com> -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania <A HREF="http://www.galuna.ro">http://www.galuna.ro</A></PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE><TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Tom Cross <<A HREF="mailto:tomc@cloudnet.com">tomc@cloudnet.com</A>> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>