gconf halting during red hat gdm login



Hello -

Maybe you can offer some insight into a problem I've been having. My machine is a RedHat 8.0 machine with the stock GConf-1.0.9-6 rpm. It is set to boot into a gdm. After entering username/password and clicking log in, my machine halts at the Red Hat loading dialog (before any of the progress icons load). I'm fairly sure it is halting at gconf activation. Based on the user syslogs, it seems to be a lockfile issue. Nfslock is running, and nfs is not being used. I've deleted/renamed all the pertinent . directories in the home directory - it seems this problem occurs regardless of the user, whether or not they have ever attempted to log in before. I tried the GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS technique to no avail. Thanks in advance for any help!

-Alex

Some pertinent information -

Output of ps jaxwww | grep gconf-

1 962 895 895 ? -1 S 0 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 9
  828  1044  1043   828 tty1      1043 S        0   0:00 grep gconf

Output of gconf-sanity-check-1 or gconf-sanity-check-2 - [nothing] (at one point it was complaining about lockfiles, this disappeared by the time I decided to write this email)

tail -n [a good sized number] /var/log/user (you can see a couple attempts to log in, usually ended by killing X and gdm) -

Sep 22 10:12:14 goby gconfd (root-8605): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 8605 user 'root' Sep 22 10:12:14 goby gconfd (root-8605): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Sep 22 10:12:14 goby gconfd (root-8605): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Sep 22 10:12:14 goby gconfd (root-8605): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Sep 22 10:16:14 goby gconfd (root-8605): Performing periodic cleanup, expiring cache cruft Sep 22 10:16:14 goby gconfd (root-8605): No log file saving needed in periodic cleanup handler Sep 22 10:16:50 goby gconfd (root-8605): Received signal 1, shutting down cleanly Sep 22 10:16:50 goby gconfd (root-8605): Saving listener gnome-session (2684354563) to log file Sep 22 10:16:50 goby gconfd (root-8605): Saving listener gnome-session (2667577346) to log file Sep 22 10:16:50 goby gconfd (root-8605): Saving listener gnome-settings-daemon (2717908997) to log file Sep 22 10:16:50 goby gconfd (root-8605): Saving listener gnome-settings-daemon (2701131780) to log file Sep 22 10:16:50 goby gconfd (root-8605): Saving listener gnome-session (2650800129) to log file
Sep 22 10:16:50 goby gconfd (root-8605): Unloading XML backend module.
Sep 22 10:16:50 goby gconfd (root-8605): Exiting
Sep 22 10:17:48 goby gconfd (root-9044): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 9044 user 'root' Sep 22 10:17:48 goby gconfd (root-9044): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Sep 22 10:17:48 goby gconfd (root-9044): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Sep 22 10:17:48 goby gconfd (root-9044): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Sep 22 10:27:46 goby gconfd (root-9513): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 9513 user 'root' Sep 22 10:27:46 goby gconfd (root-9513): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Sep 22 10:27:46 goby gconfd (root-9513): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Sep 22 10:27:46 goby gconfd (root-9513): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Sep 22 10:27:46 goby gconfd (root-9513): Unable to open saved state file '/root/.gconfd/saved_state': No such file or directory Sep 22 10:32:38 goby gconfd (root-10019): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 10019 user 'root' Sep 22 10:32:38 goby gconfd (root-10019): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Sep 22 10:32:38 goby gconfd (root-10019): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Sep 22 10:32:38 goby gconfd (root-10019): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Sep 22 10:34:07 goby gconfd (root-9044): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Sep 22 10:34:07 goby gconfd (root-9044): Exiting
Sep 22 10:34:07 goby gconfd (root-9513): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly Sep 22 10:34:07 goby gconfd (root-9513): Failed to give up lock on XML dir `/root/.gconf': Failed to link '/root/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/2t1095874447ut200822u0p9513r1725151468k3221223676' to '/root/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior': No such file or directory Sep 22 10:34:07 goby gconfd (root-9513): Error releasing lockfile: Failed to link '/root/.gconfd/lock/3t1095874447ut202320u0p9513r351185447k3221223916' to '/root/.gconfd/lock/ior': No such file or directory
Sep 22 10:34:07 goby gconfd (root-9513): Exiting
Sep 22 10:34:07 goby gconfd (root-10019): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Sep 22 10:34:07 goby gconfd (root-10019): Exiting
Sep 22 10:34:11 goby gconfd (root-10072): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 10072 user 'root' Sep 22 10:34:11 goby gconfd (root-10072): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Sep 22 10:34:11 goby gconfd (root-10072): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Sep 22 10:34:11 goby gconfd (root-10072): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Sep 22 10:36:11 goby gconfd (root-10072): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Sep 22 10:36:11 goby gconfd (root-10072): Exiting
Sep 22 10:52:59 goby gconfd (root-10376): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 10376 user 'root' Sep 22 10:52:59 goby gconfd (root-10376): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Sep 22 10:52:59 goby gconfd (root-10376): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Sep 22 10:52:59 goby gconfd (root-10376): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2
Sep 22 11:05:46 goby shutdown: shutting down for system reboot
Sep 22 11:07:09 goby xfs: listening on port 7100
Sep 22 11:07:10 goby xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic (unreadable) Sep 22 11:07:10 goby xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local (unreadable) Sep 22 11:07:50 goby gconfd (root-962): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 962 user 'root' Sep 22 11:07:50 goby gconfd (root-962): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Sep 22 11:07:50 goby gconfd (root-962): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Sep 22 11:07:50 goby gconfd (root-962): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2



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