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

[Dan Thurman]

Dan Thurman wrote:
>
> 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:
> ==============================================
> 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
> ==============================================
>
> 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
>
Sorry, I missed the very beginning of gdm start, so here it is...

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Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): starting (version 2.22.0), 
pid 15650 user 'gdm'
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to load source 
"xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf": Couldn't resolve address for 
configuration source: Can't read from or write to the XML root directory 
in the address "xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf"
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 0
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system" to a read-only configuration 
source at position 1
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 2
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 3
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): None of the resolved 
addresses are writable; saving configuration settings will not be possible
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): No writable configuration 
sources successfully resolved. May be unable to save some configuration 
changes
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Unable to open saved state 
file '/var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state': Permission denied
Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state 
file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore 
listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied)
Oct 30 16:42:12 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to log addition of 
listener gdm-simple-greeter (Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; 
won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission 
denied)); will not be able to restore this listener on gconfd restart, 
resulting in unreliable notification of configuration changes.
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: 
StartWithSettingsPrefix org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply raised: 
Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)#012
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: Couldn't 
start settings daemon
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key 
'/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state 
file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore 
listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied)
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