This occurred to me after 1 dist upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 2 apt-get clean 3 apt-get autoclean 4 some other cleanup involving booting up with a rescue CD, (and, critically, cleaning the /tmp directory) in order to tar up the image for future deployment in the field (20 laptops).
unable to log in to gdm, with the subject error present used virt terminal 1 to log in There was no directory /usr/local/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults, as described in #16, adding this did not change the boot results. checked the perms of /tmp, they were incorrect (v several working lucid systems). Changed them to 7777, and now the system reaches the gdm login screen with no errors (and I can log in) reversing the change from #16 (rm -rf /usr/local/etc/gconf) resulted in the boot sequence stopping at the terminal screen (virt terminal 1) -- that is, no gdm login screen at all. re-creating /usr/local/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults allows normal booting. so it seems both are necessary sometimes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577545 Title: "gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256" on log in Status in “gconf” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gconf I get the error message: "There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/libconf-2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)" every time I log into my computer. After I click "close" the desktop loads as normal. This has been happening on all three of my computers since I upgraded to 10.04 LTS (using boht amd64 and i386 versions). This is not caused by the permissions issues mentioned in bug #269215 as /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system is chmodded 755 and /tmp is chmodded 1777. Running "/usr/lib/libconf-2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2" from a terminal produces no output. Attached is my .xsession-errors. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: libgconf2-4 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat May 8 11:18:30 2010 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gconf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/577545/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
