Things I Needed to Know
2009-Dec-01, Tuesday 10:38 am(Please see EDIT at bottom of entry.)
Problem:
- Version 1:
Log into any account to be greeted by many popup dialog boxes from gnome saying something 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)"
Note; background remains black, menubars don't load, but icons are visible.
Jiggery poke around with some settings, deleting lock files and playing around with permissions, then problem becomes:
- Version 2:
When trying to log into your Linux machine as a user through the UI you see an error like this:
"GDM could not write your authorization file. This could mean that you are out of disk space or that your home directory could not be opened for writing. In any case it is not possible to login. Contact system administrator."
Note; logging in as root works fine.
Possible Solution:
1. Computer is out of hard-drive space, check with df -h
Not my problem.
Possible Solution:
2. .Xauthority file doesn't have correct permissions, check with ls -l /home/user
Not my problem.
Possible Solution:
3. /tmp directory doesn't have correct permissions, check with ls -l /
This is my problem. Fix with chmod 777 /tmp and restart. Likely to have solved the entire problem simply and quickly in the first place.
Reference, and props: http://hiox.org/index.php?id=276
EDIT: (15-March-2010)
This problem as in version 1 re-presented itself to me. This time I managed to get it fixed straight from the off. The solutions previously presented only work for version 2. For version 1 it is very simple. Your /tmp/gconf-{user} needs to be private. You have to
Please see http://chebe.dreamwidth.org/14683.html for further information.
Problem:
Log into any account to be greeted by many popup dialog boxes from gnome saying something 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)"
Note; background remains black, menubars don't load, but icons are visible.
Jiggery poke around with some settings, deleting lock files and playing around with permissions, then problem becomes:
- Version 2:
When trying to log into your Linux machine as a user through the UI you see an error like this:
"GDM could not write your authorization file. This could mean that you are out of disk space or that your home directory could not be opened for writing. In any case it is not possible to login. Contact system administrator."
Note; logging in as root works fine.
Possible Solution:
1. Computer is out of hard-drive space, check with df -h
Not my problem.
Possible Solution:
2. .Xauthority file doesn't have correct permissions, check with ls -l /home/user
Not my problem.
Possible Solution:
3. /tmp directory doesn't have correct permissions, check with ls -l /
This is my problem. Fix with chmod 777 /tmp and restart. Likely to have solved the entire problem simply and quickly in the first place.
Reference, and props: http://hiox.org/index.php?id=276
EDIT: (15-March-2010)
This problem as in version 1 re-presented itself to me. This time I managed to get it fixed straight from the off. The solutions previously presented only work for version 2. For version 1 it is very simple. Your /tmp/gconf-{user} needs to be private. You have to
chmod 700 /tmp/gconfd-{user}
.Please see http://chebe.dreamwidth.org/14683.html for further information.