Re: Locked file prevents logging in by user on client

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Rita J. Taylor wrote:
> 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.
>
> The system version is CentOS release 4.2 (Final).
>
> What should I do?

Figure out why permission is denied for /tmp/gconfd-rita/lock/ior

Two approaches are:
 - just "ls -l" that directory and look at the permissions
 - run gconfd-2 under strace

Havoc