Hi I sent this tip below but I think it wasn't sent to the list... anyway, here it goes... *********************************************** I had this same problem and i don't know what caused it. The solution for me was to change the permissions of gconf.xml.mandatory directory from rwx------ to rwxr-xr-x. Gustavo On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 19:27, Karel De Vriendt wrote:
I deleted these files and everything went fine. I installed ulb-gnome and ulb-themes and all was still OK.
But when I restarted the machine, I had the same problem:
Could not resolve the address "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf.xml.mandatory" in the configuration file "/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/2/path". Could not resolve the address for the configuration file: Cann't read from or write to the XML root directory in the address "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf.xml.mandatory".
The directory /etc/opt/gnome/gconf.xml.mandatory is empty (and this may be causing the problem. The ior files that James suggested I should delete do not exist any more.
I have now followed another suggestion and in the file /etc/opt/gnome/gconf/2/path, I have commented out the xml:readonly line.
Seems to work (but I assume the line is there with a reason).
Can someone explain plse?
Thanks in advance, Karel De Vriendt
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 09:36, James Ogley wrote:
I do not know it this has anything to do with it but after that, I can no longer use gnome.
Remove ~/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior and ~/.gconfd/lock/ior and try again. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org