Things I Needed To Know (Fixing old mistake)
2010-Mar-15, Monday 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chebeI'm referring to this entry: http://chebe.dreamwidth.org/6931.html
The information presented therein is incomplete at best, inaccurate and unhelpful at worst. Here's the update.
Problem:
Log in to your desktop (graphically, over vnc, etc) and nothing gnome related is loading properly. You see errors like:
"Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)"
You try
You look for those files, and they don't exist.
You edit /etc/syslog.conf to include
"Mar 15 10:40:51 mycomputer gconfd (root-6666): Bad permissions 711 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root"
Solution:
in case you were wondering.
To fix,
Aside:
Annoyingly this seems to be a side-effect of installing a certain product in work. It happens every time. But now that I know how to fix it, it's all good.
The information presented therein is incomplete at best, inaccurate and unhelpful at worst. Here's the update.
Problem:
Log in to your desktop (graphically, over vnc, etc) and nothing gnome related is loading properly. You see errors like:
"Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-oracle/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)"
You try
gconftool-2 --spawn or similar, and receive the same error.You look for those files, and they don't exist.
You edit /etc/syslog.conf to include
user.* /var/log/user. You restart the syslog daemon /etc/init.d/syslog restart or service syslog restart. Reproduce the error, and open the log at /var/log/user, where you find:"Mar 15 10:40:51 mycomputer gconfd (root-6666): Bad permissions 711 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root"
Solution:
ls -ahl /tmp and look for any gconfd-{user} files. These permissions need to be private. That would look like: drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Mar 15 10:53 gconfd-rootin case you were wondering.
To fix,
chmod 700 /tmp/gconfd-{user}Aside:
Annoyingly this seems to be a side-effect of installing a certain product in work. It happens every time. But now that I know how to fix it, it's all good.
