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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-10 i686)

Description of problem:
We have Fedora Core 1 loaded on most/all of our desktops here.  A few
desktops are giving me lots of trouble with Gconfd.  People log into
the receptionist desk, logout of receptionist desk, log into their own
desktop and gconf busts big time:

There was an error starting GNOME Settings Daemon....

The last error message was: Child PRocess did not give an error
message, unkown failure occurred.GNOME will still try to restart the
Settings Daemon next time you login.


Then the panel apps start complaining (desktop switcher and tasklist).

This is what ~/.xsession-errors looks like:
SESSION_MANAGER=local/receptionist.kendeco.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2683
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1


I usually "fix" it by hitting control-Alt-BackSpace, login as
root,clean out /tmp, reboot, and then they can log in again.  But it
is a royal PAIN.

Some Details:

We use GDM (DisallowTCP=false, NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS=false)
Home directories are NFS mounted.
DISPLAY is set to hostname:0 (as in receptionist.kendeco.com:0)
(this is so they can run apps remotely on our servers)
Authentication is using NIS

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
GConf2-2.4.0-1

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.user login
2.user logout
3.user login (maybe on a different desk)
    

Actual Results:  GConfd crashes, or cannot start

Expected Results:  GConfd should at least complain what the actual
problem is instead of just crashing.

Additional info:

We use GDM (DisallowTCP=false, NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS=false)
Home directories are NFS mounted.
DISPLAY is set to hostname:0 (as in receptionist.kendeco.com:0)
  (this is so they can run apps remotely on our servers)
Authentication is using NIS