How Do I Restart gconfd?
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Sun Sep 19 18:19:42 UTC 2004
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:22:14AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 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.
OK, I tried the following:
[ccurley at charlesc Mail]$ ps aux | grep gconf
ccurley 23496 0.0 0.4 7824 2376 pts/2 S 08:19 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2
ccurley 23564 0.0 0.2 3888 1416 pts/6 S 08:40 0:00 /usr/bin/gconfd-1
ccurley 24061 0.0 0.1 4644 588 pts/6 S 12:08 0:00 grep gconf
[ccurley at charlesc Mail]$ killall gconfd-1
[1]+ Exit 1 /usr/bin/gconfd-1
[ccurley at charlesc Mail]$ gconftool-2 --shutdown
[ccurley at charlesc Mail]$ ps aux | grep gconf
ccurley 24065 0.0 0.1 5460 584 pts/6 S 12:09 0:00 grep gconf
/var/log/messages shows:
Sep 19 12:09:03 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-23564): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Sep 19 12:09:03 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-23564): Exiting
Sep 19 12:09:23 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-23496): Exiting
and no lock file.
So I ran gconfd-2 manually:
[ccurley at charlesc Mail]$ /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 &
[1] 24082
[ccurley at charlesc Mail]$ ps aux | grep gconf
ccurley 24082 0.7 0.3 6828 2020 pts/6 S 12:13 0:00 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2
ccurley 24084 0.0 0.1 4196 584 pts/6 S 12:13 0:00 grep gconf
I see the following in /var/log/messages:
Sep 19 12:13:48 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-24082): starting (version 2.4.0), pid 24082 user 'ccurley'
Sep 19 12:13:48 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-24082): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
Sep 19 12:13:48 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-24082): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/ccurley/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Sep 19 12:13:48 charlesc gconfd (ccurley-24082): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2
I now have a lock file. But no change in the desktop background to the
one indicated by gconf-editor.
>
> 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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