Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:36:44 -0500 From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@scotth.emsphone.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gconfd-2 Message-ID: <1083591404.91463.8.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1083440712.56185.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20040430141717.A739@scotth.emsphone.com> <1083440712.56185.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe,
Thanks! That was it TMP was set to '.'! I switched my default
shell to zsh (I was using tcsh) and I copied the zshenv & zshrc from one
of the servers and that env variable was set. I should have known, but
of course this happened when I did some upgrades so I didn't think of
the shell env being the problem. I ran strace, saw that gconfd-2 was
trying to make the orbit dir "./orbit-blah", I just couldn't figure out
where it was trying to create it. Once again thank you very much, that
was driving me nuts!
STH
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 14:45, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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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