Re: question about gconfd

["Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich gmail com>]

Sorry - missed the whole list.  See bottom post, below.

On 9/24/07, Jan De Coster <jan digitalbase be> wrote:

anyone can explain me what this error is ? and maybe offer a solution ??

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Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9653): starting (version
2.18.0.1), pid 9653 user 'ludwig'
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9653): Failed to open
/tmp/gconfd-ludwig: Input/output error
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9653): Failed to get lock for
daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-ludwig has a problem, gconfd
can't use it
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9655): starting (version
2.18.0.1), pid 9655 user 'ludwig'
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9658): starting (version
2.18.0.1), pid 9658 user 'ludwig'
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9655): Failed to open
/tmp/gconfd-ludwig: Input/output error
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9655): Failed to get lock for
daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-ludwig has a problem, gconfd
can't use it
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9658): Failed to open
/tmp/gconfd-ludwig: Input/output error
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9658): Failed to get lock for
daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-ludwig has a problem, gconfd
can't use it
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9660): starting (version
2.18.0.1), pid 9660 user 'ludwig'
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9660): Failed to open
/tmp/gconfd-ludwig: Input/output error
Sep 24 08:53:35 DB-POSEIDON gconfd (ludwig-9660): Failed to get lock for
daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-ludwig has a problem, gconfd
can't use it

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Kr,

It might help diagnose the problem if you supplied a long listing of the problem directory.

It sounds like a permissions problem, either on /tmp (most likely) or /tmp/gconfd-ludwig.

Details, please.

mhr