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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Looks like gconf is not able to write files or create files in the .gconf direcotry. I have to mention that i am using a networked drive, which means the account that i am logged into has its disk drive on another miachine and it is being shared through nfs. This error does not happen when i log into other accounts but on the same machine. I got the following messages in the /var/log/messages file. ul 13 18:21:49 ustr-irlapasj-1 gconfd (irlapasj-4276): Failed to write "/home/irlapasj/.gconf/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/%gconf.xml": Failed to open "/home/irlapasj/.gconf/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/%gconf.xml.new": No such file or directory Jul 13 18:21:49 ustr-irlapasj-1 gconfd (irlapasj-4276): Could not make directory "/home/irlapasj/.gconf/apps/nautilus": No such file or directory Jul 13 18:21:49 ustr-irlapasj-1 gconfd (irlapasj-4276): Failed to write "/home/irlapasj/.gconf/apps/nautilus/%gconf.xml": Failed to open "/home/irlapasj/.gconf/apps/nautilus/%gconf.xml.new": No such file or directory Jul 13 18:21:49 ustr-irlapasj-1 gconfd (irlapasj-4276): Failed to sync one or more sources: Failed to write some configuration data to disk Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GConf2-2.10.0-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.log into networked account. 2.startup evolution 3.go to edit->preferences It can also be produced, by clicking on the "main menu" icon on the panel. Actual Results: It hangs. Expected Results: Either i should have seen the prefences window of evolution. Or i would have seen some menu when clicking on the main menu button. Additional info:
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
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