Problem with Gconfd

[Tom Cross]

Excellent!  I'm glad someone else has this problem!! Please add any
comments you can to this bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119218

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:

> 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>
> -- 
> Marius Andreiana
> Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
> http://www.galuna.ro

-- 
Tom Cross <tomc at cloudnet.com>
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