[KLUG Members] Suse 9.0

[Bruce Smith]

> More great learning fun from Suse to come. Anyway did some online updates 
> Tuesday evenig for Suse (the ones from yast) and I was able to break some 
> neat stuff first the onboard network decided to call it day, but thanks to 
> Bruces help I was able to breath life back into it, as the stars and 
> planets aligned with the oceans tide. It has been working great and I 
> burned up the net. then I made the mistake of logging out... This morning 
> went to log in and got this message "prefence files in use etc..." clicked 
> ok and then came up with this message "Please contact sys admin resolve 
> following problem:
> Could not resolve address 
> "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" in the config file
> "/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/2/path": couldn't resolve address for config source:
> can't read from or write to the XML root directory in the address
> "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf.xml.mandatory"

Here's a guess.  Switch to a virtual console, login as root, look for
processes running as your normal userid ("ps -fu britz") and kill them.
Then try logging in.

Redhat used to have the same problem, and I had to add some kill/slay
commands in my xdm Xreset script to "fix" the problem on SuSE 9 too.

 - BS