How Do I Restart gconfd?
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Sun Sep 19 15:22:14 UTC 2004
Hi,
gconfd-1 should not be running; if it is for some reason that could
cause all sorts of problems.
to restart gconfd generally just kill it, or gconftool-2 --shutdown is
the more orderly equivalent. But should not be required.
Havoc
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 08:42 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> This is on FC1, with GConf2-2.4.0-1. gconfd-2 appears to shut itself
> down. How do I get it to restart?
>
> I can run "/usr/libexec/gconfd-2", and it appears to run: it is
> present in a "ps" listing, and it has a lock file.
>
> However, I have a script that changes my desktop background every 24
> hours (http://www.charlescurley.com/wallpaper2.html). Gconf-editor
> shows the last change, but the last change did not take effect on the
> screen, and does not take effect when I restart gconfd. Similarly, if
> I manually set the background, it fails to take effect. This leads me
> to think I'm not using the right magic incantation.
>
> gconftool-2 -t str -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /home/ccurley/Photos/www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper/art/Europa_1280_1024.jpg
>
> [ccurley at charlesc Mail]$ ps aux | grep gconf
> ccurley 15353 0.0 0.1 4504 988 ? S Sep18 0:00 /usr/bin/gconfd-1 27
> ccurley 23458 0.0 1.4 13220 7448 pts/2 S 08:01 0:00 gconf-editor
> ccurley 23496 0.0 0.4 7816 2076 pts/2 S 08:19 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2
> ccurley 23544 0.0 0.1 4508 588 pts/6 S 08:32 0:00 grep gconf
>
> Stopping gconfd-1 ("gconftool-1 --shutdown") and restarting it had no
> effect.
>
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