From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 06:36:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0C016A4CE for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 06:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (scotth.emsphone.com [199.67.51.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E31C43D5A for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 06:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shildret@scotth.emsphone.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i43Daisx091538; Mon, 3 May 2004 08:36:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shildret@scotth.emsphone.com) Received: (from shildret@localhost) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i43DaiDV091537; Mon, 3 May 2004 08:36:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Scott T. Hildreth" To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1083440712.56185.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20040430141717.A739@scotth.emsphone.com> <1083440712.56185.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1083591404.91463.8.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:36:44 -0500 cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gconfd-2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 13:36:46 -0000 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"