http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6138
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-20-10 14:13 ------- First, could you install new gdm packages from http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~fcrozat/gdm/, it contains reviewed fixes from gdm author.. Second, I'm almost sure permission on ~/.Xauthority are wrong (which could have been caused by old version of gdm), which would explain you still have the problem. So, logout, login using text mode, then do "chmod 600 ~/.Xauthority". When using the latest GDM, echo $XAUTHORITY should ALSWAYS be $HOME/.Xauthority (which will workaround design bug in bonobo-activation-server) -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: REOPENED creation_date: description: I've got this problem severals times, sometimes it disappears magically, sometimes i have to delete all my gnome settings ( ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd, ~/.gnome ). Situation : - current cooker ( 2.4.22-10mdk, GConf-1.0.9-11mdk, GConf2-2.4.0.1-1mdk, nfs-utils-clients-1.0.5-1mdk, kdebase-3.1.92-2mdk, metacity-2.6.1-1mdk ) - home on a NFS share ( vers=3, tcp, rsize=8192, wsize=8192, nosuid, soft, intr, timeo=600 ) - NFS server = mdk 9.1 + soft RAID1 ( ext3 partition ) One more time again, I'm facing this "Gnome n'a pu d�marrer le d�mon de pr�f�rence. Pour l'instant il sera d�sactiv� et vous n'aurez pas acc�s aux th�mes, sons ... ) -> Gnome was unable to launch gnome preferences daemon. So i don't have theme ( ugly default one for style, color, theme, nautilus icons ), can't launch some applets ( windows list/systray, desktop switcher ) because of an OAFIID cryptic error ... And i have nothing interesting in ~/.xsession-errors This is not a locking problem on my nfs partition as I don't have the message saying that gconfd had problem locking some files. Nothing intersting too in /var/log/messages It's incredible how easily I can break gnome ( nfs bugs -> gconfd locking problem whereas kde works like a charm, ???? -> gnome preferences daemon not starting ). The only way to solve this is ... to reboot !
