Re: All (?) gconf apps hang at startup.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Erik Gustavsson <cyrano algonet se> writes: 
> It seems to me gconfd is started by the app, exits, and then the app sits
> waiting for data on a pipe forever...  not quite sure, and I have no idea
> what to do about it. I'd like to be able to start my apps again, any
> ideas?
> 
> Here are my syslog messages, and the last part of "strace eog".
> 
> Oct 24 14:59:48 bettan gconfd (cyrano-3908): starting (version 1.0.6), pid 3908 user 'cyrano'
> Oct 24 14:59:52 bettan gconfd (cyrano-3908): Received signal 1, shutting down cleanly
> Oct 24 14:59:52 bettan gconfd (cyrano-3908): Failed to get lock for
> daemon, exiting: Failed to create or open
> '/home/cyrano/.gconfd/lock/ior'

signal 1 is HUP, I have no idea why it would get that. But then the
next message indicates a different problem.

Can you strace -f, or just do "strace gconfd-1", so we can see what
the daemon is up to?

Any chance you have an NFS-mounted home directory?

Havoc