[KLUG Members] Suse 9.0

[Brian Ritz]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Bruce Smith wrote:

>> 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.
No go nothing was running but I do have more error messages to add:
"failed to unlink lock /home/britz/.gconfd/lock/ior: no such file or 
dircectory
gconf-sanity-check-2 did not pass

It seems to be denying permission to "remove locks"  in 
/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults

>
>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
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