Hum... I cannot figure out how to fix this particular issue. I have tried to look for information in forums and mailers but have not found any solutions to this. Can you take a look at the following and perhaps you might already know of a solution?
/var/log/messages: ============================================== Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Error setting value for `/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages': Unable to store a value at key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf
Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: CRITICAL: gdm_option_widget_set_default_item: assertion `item == NULL || gdm_option_widget_lookup_item (widget, item, NULL, NULL, NULL)' failed Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Could not open saved state file '/var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' for writing: Permission denied Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Exiting Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): starting (version 2.22.0), pid 15784 user 'admin' Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/admin/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 ==============================================
1) Not sure how to set the gconf key and path /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages and /apps does not exist.
2) Seems that gconf path file is there: # cd /etc/gconf/2 # ls evoldap.conf local-defaults.path local-mandatory.path path
3) gconfd was not doubly started, AFAIK - checked pgrep gconfd and only one processID exist.
4) There are no locks located in ~/.gconf*/*locks
I have removed and reinstalled gdm but that did not help.
Not sure what to do at this point...
Thanks! Dan
Dan Thurman wrote:
Hum... I cannot figure out how to fix this particular issue. I have tried to look for information in forums and mailers but have not found any solutions to this. Can you take a look at the following and perhaps you might already know of a solution?
/var/log/messages:
Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Error setting value for `/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages': Unable to store a value at key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf
Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset Oct 30 16:42:26 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: CRITICAL: gdm_option_widget_set_default_item: assertion `item == NULL || gdm_option_widget_lookup_item (widget, item, NULL, NULL, NULL)' failed Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Could not open saved state file '/var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' for writing: Permission denied Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Exiting Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): starting (version 2.22.0), pid 15784 user 'admin' Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/admin/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 Oct 30 16:42:31 bronze gconfd (admin-15784): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 ==============================================
Not sure how to set the gconf key and path /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages and /apps does not exist.
Seems that gconf path file is there:
# cd /etc/gconf/2 # ls evoldap.conf local-defaults.path local-mandatory.path path
gconfd was not doubly started, AFAIK - checked pgrep gconfd and only one processID exist.
There are no locks located in ~/.gconf*/*locks
I have removed and reinstalled gdm but that did not help.
Not sure what to do at this point...
Thanks! Dan
Sorry, I missed the very beginning of gdm start, so here it is...
================================================ Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): starting (version 2.22.0), pid 15650 user 'gdm' Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to load source "xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf": Couldn't resolve address for configuration source: Can't read from or write to the XML root directory in the address "xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf" Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system" to a read-only configuration source at position 1 Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3 Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): None of the resolved addresses are writable; saving configuration settings will not be possible Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): No writable configuration sources successfully resolved. May be unable to save some configuration changes Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Unable to open saved state file '/var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state': Permission denied Oct 30 16:42:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) Oct 30 16:42:12 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to log addition of listener gdm-simple-greeter (Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied)); will not be able to restore this listener on gconfd restart, resulting in unreliable notification of configuration changes. Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: StartWithSettingsPrefix org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply raised: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)#012 Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: Couldn't start settings daemon Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gdm-simple-greeter[15590]: WARNING: gconf key '/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages' is unset Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
---- might be useful to look at output of
rpm -Vq gdm
Craig
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
might be useful to look at output of
rpm -Vq gdm
Craig
# rpm -Vq gdm S.5....T c /etc/gdm/custom.conf .M....G. /var/log/gdm
I have no idea what it means! ;)
Thanks! Dan
Dan Thurman wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
might be useful to look at output of
rpm -Vq gdm
Craig
# rpm -Vq gdm S.5....T c /etc/gdm/custom.conf .M....G. /var/log/gdm
I have no idea what it means! ;)
Thanks! Dan
Here is more info:
[root@bronze dant]# cd /etc/gdm [root@bronze gdm]# diff custom.conf custom.conf.rpmnew 4,7d3 < Enable=true < Willing=/etc/gdm/Xwilling < Xaccess=/etc/gdm/Xaccess < Port=177 [root@bronze gdm]# ls -lZ custom.conf custom.conf.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 custom.conf -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 custom.conf.rpmnew [root@bronze gdm]# ls -ldZ /var/log/gdm drwxrwx--T root gdm system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 /var/log/gdm [root@bronze gdm]# ls -lZ /var/log/gdm -rw-r--r-- 106 114 system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :0-greeter.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :0.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :1.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :2.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :3.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :4.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :5.log
Thanks! Dan
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
might be useful to look at output of
rpm -Vq gdm
Craig
# rpm -Vq gdm S.5....T c /etc/gdm/custom.conf .M....G. /var/log/gdm
I have no idea what it means! ;)
man rpm:
S file Size differs M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type) 5 MD5 sum differs D Device major/minor number mismatch L readLink(2) path mismatch U User ownership differs G Group ownership differs T mTime differs
poc
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
might be useful to look at output of
rpm -Vq gdm
Craig
# rpm -Vq gdm S.5....T c /etc/gdm/custom.conf .M....G. /var/log/gdm
I have no idea what it means! ;)
---- might be useful to read the man page for rpm
# cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf # GDM configuration storage
[xdmcp]
[chooser]
[security]
[debug]
# ls -ld /var/log/gdm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-29 08:05 /var/log/gdm
I honestly don't know what you are doing with the config/permissions and these are clearly defaults because I use kdm and not gdm.
Craig
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:37 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Dan Thurman wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
might be useful to look at output of
rpm -Vq gdm
Craig
# rpm -Vq gdm S.5....T c /etc/gdm/custom.conf .M....G. /var/log/gdm
I have no idea what it means! ;)
Thanks! Dan
Here is more info:
[root@bronze dant]# cd /etc/gdm [root@bronze gdm]# diff custom.conf custom.conf.rpmnew 4,7d3 < Enable=true < Willing=/etc/gdm/Xwilling < Xaccess=/etc/gdm/Xaccess < Port=177 [root@bronze gdm]# ls -lZ custom.conf custom.conf.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 custom.conf -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 custom.conf.rpmnew [root@bronze gdm]# ls -ldZ /var/log/gdm drwxrwx--T root gdm system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 /var/log/gdm [root@bronze gdm]# ls -lZ /var/log/gdm -rw-r--r-- 106 114 system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :0-greeter.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :0.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :1.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :2.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :3.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :4.log -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :5.log
---- are you running selinux? targeted? if so, are you checking the logs to find errors and fixing them?
anyway, the selinux contexts are not an issue
chmod 755 /var/log/gdm
I don't know anything about the entries in your 'custom.conf'
Craig
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
might be useful to look at output of
rpm -Vq gdm
Craig
# rpm -Vq gdm S.5....T c /etc/gdm/custom.conf .M....G. /var/log/gdm
I have no idea what it means! ;)
man rpm:
S file Size differs M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type) 5 MD5 sum differs D Device major/minor number mismatch L readLink(2) path mismatch U User ownership differs G Group ownership differs T mTime differs
---- patrick...if the guy is too lazy to type 'man rpm' instead of typing to the list, 5 times the amount of characters and waiting for someone on the list to tell him, you really didn't do the list any favors by giving him the contents.
Craig
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied) ================================================
might be useful to look at output of
rpm -Vq gdm
Craig
# rpm -Vq gdm S.5....T c /etc/gdm/custom.conf .M....G. /var/log/gdm
I have no idea what it means! ;)
might be useful to read the man page for rpm
# cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf # GDM configuration storage
[xdmcp]
[chooser]
[security]
[debug]
# ls -ld /var/log/gdm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-29 08:05 /var/log/gdm
I honestly don't know what you are doing with the config/permissions and these are clearly defaults because I use kdm and not gdm.
Craig
FYI: I did consult the man pages after I posted that comment and before Patrick replied because I really cannot remember off the top of my head what the details were.
I can understand what rpm is reporting - and yes, there are differences and since I am using Gnome, perhaps permissions will be different, I just don't know yet.
I have another F9 system that does not report the errors in the log messages and the Gdm files and permissions are exactly the same between the two systems as far as the gdm log directory and custom files go. Perhaps the problem lies elsewhere and we are only seeing it's symptoms.
As for the difference in custom.conf against custome.conf.rpmnew, it is simply that I turned on XDMCP so that I can remotely connect to the system and there is no other additions in that file.
I will however try to see if chmod 755 will work or not. Will post when I find out more.
Dan
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