Re: gconfd startup failure

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 10:50, Toralf Lund wrote:
> One of our users keeps getting gconfd startup error messages on login - 
> and other errors resulting in an unusable setup as a consequence. Other 
> users can log in on the same system with no problems. gconftool-2 
> --shutdown does not help, neither does .gconf or .gconfd removal. We 
> even tried changing the setup for login on an alternate home directory, 
> but no luck.
> 
> All this on a Red Hat Linux 9 system.
> 
> What might cause this?

look at their .gconf and .gconfd directories. Make sure neither of them
is group readable or otherwise set.

-sv