file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully,

[Peter Janda <pjanda us ibm com>]

Some other weird thing is wrong with my gconf!!!

Try shutting down gconfd (gconftool-2 --shutdown) and running the gconf-sanity-check-1 or gconf-sanity-check-2 applications - these will tell you about common problems. Also, be sure you have the latest GConf version.

If you can't figure out what's going on, mail gconf-list gnome org with the following information:

• Exact error messages from any applications.
• Exact version of GConf 1 and GConf 2 that you have installed.
• Output of ps jaxwww | grep gconf.
• Output of gconf-sanity-check-1 or gconf-sanity-check-2 if any.
• What operating system are you using, and what version of it.
• What appears in the user.* syslog (see above for how to turn on user.* syslog).

Before you mail, please read this whole web page.

Jan 18 11:56:50  gconfd (root-27177): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 27177 user 'root'
Jan 18 11:56:50  gconfd (root-27177): Bad permissions 1777 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root
Jan 18 11:56:50  gconfd (root-27177): Failed to write byte to pipe file descriptor 13 so client program may     hang: Transport endpoint is not connected
Jan 18 11:56:50  gconfd (root-27177): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-root ha    s a problem, gconfd can't use it
Jan 18 11:57:44  gconfd (root-27225): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 27225 user 'root'
Jan 18 11:57:44  gconfd (root-27225): Bad permissions 1777 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root
Jan 18 11:57:44  gconfd (root-27225): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-root ha    s a problem, gconfd can't use it
Jan 18 12:00:30  gconfd (root-27366): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 27366 user 'root'
Jan 18 12:00:30  gconfd (root-27366): Bad permissions 1777 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root
Jan 18 12:00:30  gconfd (root-27366): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-root has a problem, gconfd can't use it
Jan 18 12:07:58  gconfd (root-27688): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 27688 user 'root'
Jan 18 12:07:58  gconfd (root-27688): Bad permissions 1777 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root
Jan 18 12:07:58  gconfd (root-27688): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-root has a problem, gconfd can't use it
Jan 18 12:08:32  gconfd (root-27723): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 27723 user 'root'
Jan 18 12:08:32  gconfd (root-27723): Bad permissions 1777 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root
Jan 18 12:08:32  gconfd (root-27723): Failed to write byte to pipe file descriptor 13 so client program may hang: Transport endpoint is not connected
Jan 18 12:08:32  gconfd (root-27723): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-root has a problem, gconfd can't use it
Jan 18 12:10:56  gconfd (root-27826): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 27826 user 'root'
Jan 18 12:10:56  gconfd (root-27826): Wrong permissions for /tmp/orbit-root
Jan 18 12:10:56  last message repeated 2 times
Jan 18 12:10:56  gconfd (root-27826): Bad permissions 777 on directory /tmp/gconfd-root
Jan 18 12:10:56  gconfd (root-27826): Failed to write byte to pipe file descriptor 13 so client program may hang: Transport endpoint is not connected
Jan 18 12:10:56  gconfd (root-27826): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-root has a problem, gconfd can't use it
Jan 18 12:13:26  gconfd (root-27951): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 27951 user 'root'
Jan 18 12:13:26  gconfd (root-27951): Wrong permissions for /tmp/orbit-root
Jan 18 12:13:26  gconfd (root-27951): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a r    ead-only configuration source at position 0
Jan 18 12:13:26  gconfd (root-27951): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable configura    tion source at position 1
Jan 18 12:13:26  gconfd (root-27951): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a re    ad-only configuration source at position 2
Jan 18 12:13:26  gconfd (root-27951): Failed to write byte to pipe file descriptor 13 so client program may     hang: Transport endpoint is not connected
Jan 18 12:13:26  gconfd (root-27951): error condition on server fd is 0x20
Jan 18 12:13:56  last message repeated 1050191 times
Jan 18 12:13:56  gconfd (root-27951): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Jan 18 12:13:56  gconfd (root-27951): Exiting
Jan 18 12:15:17  gconfd (root-28051): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 28051 user 'root'
Jan 18 12:15:17  gconfd (root-28051): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a r    ead-only configuration source at position 0
Jan 18 12:15:17  gconfd (root-28051): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable configura    tion source at position 1
Jan 18 12:15:17  gconfd (root-28051): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a re    ad-only configuration source at position 2
Jan 18 12:15:17  gconfd (root-28051): Failed to write byte to pipe file descriptor 13 so client program may     hang: Transport endpoint is not connected
Jan 18 12:15:17  gconfd (root-28051): error condition on server fd is 0x20
Jan 18 12:15:47  last message repeated 1048718 times
Jan 18 12:15:47  gconfd (root-28051): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Jan 18 12:15:47  gconfd (root-28051): Exiting

After resetting the permissions of /tmp to 777 and and then resetting the permissions on:
drwx------  3 root    root   4096 Jan 18 12:22 gconfd-root
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Jan 18 12:38 lock
drwx------  2 root    root   4096 Jan 18 12:52 orbit-root

Everything worked again.
I'm not sure if this was needed or not:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 14 Jan 18 11:51 /etc/orbitrc
[root omnibus]# cat /etc/orbitrc
ORBIIOPIPv4=1
But I left it that way.

Jan 18 12:26:28  gpm[19593]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode.
Jan 18 12:26:28  gpm[19593]: *** info [mice.c(1766)]:
Jan 18 12:26:28  gpm[19593]: imps2: Auto-detected intellimouse PS/2
Jan 18 12:27:05  fstab-sync[20093]: removed all generated mount points
Jan 18 12:27:05  fstab-sync[20104]: added mount point /media/cdrecorder for /dev/hdc
Jan 18 12:38:41  gconfd (root-21954): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 21954 user 'root'
Jan 18 12:38:41  gconfd (root-21954): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Jan 18 12:38:41  gconfd (root-21954): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Jan 18 12:38:41  gconfd (root-21954): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Jan 18 12:38:49  gconfd (root-21954): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0