http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6138
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-20-10 15:06 ------- I replaced the old gdm.conf by the new one (I can check it since the theme is different). Unfortunately, I still have XAUTHORITY in /tmp Would it be possible that the first trial to access /home/.Xauthority failed due to some NFS reasons and then that GDM uses the FallBack directory (which is set to /tmp)? -- 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 !
