gconfd-2

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 15:17, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I am hopping someone can point me in the right direction.  I did a portupgrade
> of all the xfce4 ports, evolution, and galeon.  I restarted the xfce and when I try 
> to start evolution, mozilla, or galeon, I keep getting this error message,
> 
> <<< Fri Apr 30 13:52:25 2004 >>>
> Apr 30 13:52:25 scotth gconfd (shildret-683): I can't write to './orbit-shildret', ORB init failed
> Apr 30 13:52:25 scotth /kernel: pid 683 (gconfd-2), uid 1013: exited on signal 6
> 
> 
> ... I have tried removing all the gconf & orbit dirs in /tmp, /var/tmp, and my home.
> When I try gconfd-2, the dirs get re-created and the same error appears.  In fact the 
> orbit-shildret in my home gets created with a date of "Dec 31 1969".  I cannot figure this
> out, any ideas would be much appreciated!

First check to see if you have any of TMPDIR, TMP, or TEMP set in your
environment.  If you do, make sure the directory being pointed to has at
least 1777 permissions.  Something wants to tell me, you have one of
these set to '.' which is not a good idea.  It would be better to unset
them, and let GNOME use the system temp directory.

Next, check the perms on /var/tmp, /tmp, and your home directory.  Both
/tmp and /var/tmp should be at least 1777.  You home directory needs to
be owned by you, and at least 0700.

This error occurs when ORBit2 tries to create a directory with 0700
permissions in the temporary directory (usually /var/tmp) and access is
denied.

Joe

> 
> 
>                                                 Thanks,
>                                                    STH
> 
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