Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.

[Dan Thurman]

Hum...  I cannot figure out how to fix this particular issue.
I have tried to look for information in forums and mailers
but have not found any solutions to this.  Can you take a
look at the following and perhaps you might already know
of a solution?

/var/log/messages:
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Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key 
'/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset
Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Error setting value for 
`/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages': Unable to store a value at 
key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages', as the configuration 
server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this 
problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't 
contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created 
two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS 
file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client 
machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that 
file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had 
two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all 
copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, 
remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use 
GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default 
configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put 
"ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for 
details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per 
home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also 
lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf

Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key 
'/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset
Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: CRITICAL: 
gdm_option_widget_set_default_item: assertion `item == NULL || 
gdm_option_widget_lookup_item (widget, item, NULL, NULL, NULL)' failed
Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Could not open saved state 
file '/var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' for writing: Permission denied
Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Exiting
Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): starting (version 2.22.0), 
pid 15784 user 'admin'
Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 0
Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/home/admin/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at 
position 1
Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 2
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1) Not sure how to set the gconf key and path
    /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages
    and /apps does not exist.

2) Seems that gconf path file is there:
  # cd /etc/gconf/2
  # ls
  evoldap.conf  local-defaults.path  local-mandatory.path  path

3) gconfd was not doubly started, AFAIK - checked pgrep gconfd
    and only one processID exist.

4) There are no locks located in ~/.gconf*/*locks

I have removed and reinstalled gdm but that did not help.

Not sure what to do at this point...

Thanks!
Dan