Re: Locked file prevents logging in by user on client

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 10:24 +0200, Rita J. Taylor wrote:
> Dear Gconf,
> I have a problem logging into my client as user and have rebooted. I
> get PreSession Defaults and a GConf Error: Failed to contact
> configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable
> TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a
> system crash.
> 
> I looked on your website for information.
> 
> It also says (Details - 1:IOR file 'tmp/gconfd-rita/lock/ior' not
> opened successfuly, no gconfd located: Permission denied: IOR file
> '/tmp/gconfd-rita/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd
> located: Permission denied). And it also says: Failed to unlink lock
> file /tmp/gconfd-rita/lock/ior: Permission denied. And
> gconf-sanity-check-2 did not pass, logging back out.
> 

hmmmm . select failsafe session from gdm console, and loggin as you
normally would.

you should see a xterm window on desktop .

delete temp files, and run gnome as shown below

	$ rm -rf /tmp/gconfd-rita
	$ gnome-session

> The system version is CentOS release 4.2 (Final).
> 
> What should I do?

let me know what is printed out by gnome-session, and if any other
messages are noticed in ~/xsession-errors file .

> Thanks,
> 
> Rita J. Taylor 
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