gconfd Errors in /var/log/messages

[Ken Moffat]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 6/30/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   
>>    Since I don't run Gnome, just Xfce, I'd appreciate someone explaining why
>> I see the following errors in /var/log/messages, and what I should do to
>> eliminate the problems:
>>     
>
> I'm sure I don't know why they're there. There are  a couple of
> possibilities. First off, Thunar can optionally use gconf if it's
> available. More to the point, your distro may launch gconfd on login
> even if you don't need it. Xubuntu makes use of gconf, even though
> it's a pure(ish) Xfce distro.
>
> You can probably make them go away by fixing the underlying permission
> issue, or if you truly do not need GConf, uninstalling it through your
> distros package management system.
>
> You could also consider asking in a distro specific forum (since if
> you didn't install gconf, they must have) or in a Gnome forum
>   
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18651): starting (version 2.16.0), pid 18651 user 'rshepard'
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18651): Owner of /tmp/orbit-rshepard is not the current user
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18651): Owner of /tmp/orbit-rshepard-28a86888 is not the current user
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18651): Failed to open /tmp/gconfd-rshepard: Permission denied
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18651): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-rshepard has a problem, gconfd can't use it
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18653): starting (version 2.16.0), pid 18653 user 'rshepard'
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18653): Owner of /tmp/orbit-rshepard is not the current user
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18653): Owner of /tmp/orbit-rshepard-28a86888 is not the current user
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18653): Failed to open /tmp/gconfd-rshepard: Permission denied
>> messages.1:Jun 29 06:24:16 salmo gconfd (rshepard-18653): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Directory /tmp/gconfd-rshepard has a problem, gconfd can't use it
>>
>>    I get these almost every day.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rich
>>
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>>     
>
>
>   
I get these on ubuntu with gnome and xfce installed, while using xfce. 
Might be a ubuntu thing.

Jun 21 13:51:04 noisy gconfd (ken-21977): starting (version 2.16.0), pid 
21977 u
ser 'ken'
Jun 21 13:51:04 noisy gconfd (ken-21977): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gc
onf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Jun 21 13:51:04 noisy gconfd (ken-21977): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/home/
ken/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Jun 21 13:51:04 noisy gconfd (ken-21977): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gc
onf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Jun 21 13:51:04 noisy gconfd (ken-21977): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/var/li
b/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Jun 21 13:51:04 noisy gconfd (ken-21977): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/var/li
b/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4