Re: Locked file prevents logging in by user on client

[Joe Baker <joebaker nelfc com>]

You mentioned that your home directory is mounted over NFS.

Make sure that your user account is not in use on any of the other
machines connected to this NFS share.

I wish to see GConfd "networkified" so that multiple machines can
actively support Gnome applications using the same user account.  Yet
still I havn't seen much progress in this direction.

It is quite likely that the temp files gconfd is referring to exist in
the /tmp directory of a different machine.

Once in an effort to get this to work I actually shared the same /tmp
directory across NFS.  It didn't really work that well.  I learned that
Unix sockets don't work over NFS (am I'm saying that correctly?).

-Joe


Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> 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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