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Old 12-09-2008, 03:54 PM   #1
keithmcd
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gconfd dies to greeter


Hi,

I just upgraded a machine from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch yesterday. The upgrade went great and I can login to it via gnome/kde without issue as can several other users.

However, I've got one user that whenever he logs in gconfd dies and his session drops back to the greeter. The following are all reported in a few of the logs and I've tried resetting him to default gnome so that it would rebuild anything corrupted with no success.

Quote:
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): starting (version 2.16.1), pid 10313 user 'user'
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/user/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): starting (version 2.16.1), pid 10313 user 'user'
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/user/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration machine at position 3
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Exiting
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gconfd (userh-10313): Exiting
Dec 9 16:38:06 machine gdm[10194]: Error reinitilizing server
 
Old 12-10-2008, 09:54 AM   #2
keithmcd
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[solved]

This is corrected. It turns out the machine previously had openafs running and I had to just build a new kernel module. Did that, installed, rebooted and all is perfect in the universe.
 
  


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