Re: Problem with Gconfd

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
-- 
Marius Andreiana
Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
http://www.galuna.ro
--
Tom Cross <tomc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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