Re: /tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior missing

David Vanderson <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:02:39 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.lib.gconf
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I believe the permissions must be 700 on /tmp/gconfd-michael.  "chmod 
700 /tmp/gconfd-michael" should do it.

Dave

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> A couple of days ago I rebooted into Gentoo Linux from Windows to find
> that my gnome applications would not work.  It said that
> /tmp/gconfd-michael/lock/ior did not exist.  I checked and it doesn't, so
> it's not a permissions thing, I don't think.  I spent the last two days
> doing emerge --emptytree gnome and then I rebooted the computer.  It still
> didn't work.  A few minutes ago I found
> http://www.nabble.com/file-'-tmp-gconfd-root-lock-ior'-not-opened-successfully,-td14982053.html
> 
> and issued
> 
> gconftool-2 --shutdown
> 
> and then
> 
> gconf-sanity-check-2
> 
> Both dumped me back at the prompt with no output.  GConf is not running,
> according to ps.  I just looked at the logs, and I see a lot of these:
> 
> Jan 25 11:45:25 camille (michael-8657): Bad permissions 777 on directory
> /tmp/gconfd-michael
> Jan 25 11:45:25 camille (michael-8657): Failed to get lock for daemon,
> exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-michael has a problem, gconfd can't use it
> 
> so maybe it is a permissions problem?  Isn't 777 all-access?  What should
> the permission be set to?
> 
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