Problem with Gconfd
Marius Andreiana
mandreiana at rdslink.ro
Thu Mar 25 07:26:50 UTC 2004
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 at cloudnet.com>
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Marius Andreiana
Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
http://www.galuna.ro
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