Hello,
I started receiving the following errors in my message log on RedHat 5 and wonder if you could help me. We don’t use gconf but are still getting the errors. How can I stop these errors from appearing?
Aug 18 21:41:31 online gconfd (nobody-22202): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 22202 user 'nobody'
Aug 18 21:41:31 online gconfd (nobody-22202): Failed to load source "xml:readwrite://.gconf": Failed: Could not make directory `//.gconf': Permission denied
Aug 18 21:41:31 online gconfd (nobody-22202): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Aug 18 21:41:31 online gconfd (nobody-22202): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 1
Aug 18 21:41:31 online gconfd (nobody-22202): None of the resolved addresses are writable; saving configuration settings will not be possible
Aug 18 21:41:31 online gconfd (nobody-22202): No writable config sources successfully resolved, may not be able to save some configuration changes
Aug 18 21:41:31 online gconfd (nobody-22202): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (No such file or directory)
Aug 18 21:42:01 online gconfd (nobody-22202): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (No such file or directory)
Aug 18 21:42:01 online gconfd (nobody-22202): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Aug 18 21:42:01 online gconfd (nobody-22202): Could not open saved state file '/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' for writing: No such file or directory
Aug 18 21:42:01 online gconfd (nobody-22202): Exiting
We have gnome-python2-gconf-2.16.0-1.fc6 installed.
This is the output of ps jaxwww | grep gconf
20863 2387 2386 20825 pts/0 2386 S+ 0 0:00 grep gconf
This is the output of gconf-sanity-check-2
-bash: gconf-sanity-check-2: command not found
Thank you very much for your help
Nobuko Fogarty