Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> >   
> >> Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state 
> >> file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore 
> >> listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied)
> >> ================================================
> >>     
> > ----
> > might be useful to look at output of
> >
> > rpm -Vq gdm
> >
> > Craig
> >   
> # rpm -Vq gdm
> S.5....T  c /etc/gdm/custom.conf
> .M....G.    /var/log/gdm
> 
> I have no idea what it means! ;)
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might be useful to read the man page for rpm

# cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf
# GDM configuration storage

[xdmcp]

[chooser]

[security]

[debug]

# ls -ld /var/log/gdm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-29 08:05 /var/log/gdm

I honestly don't know what you are doing with the config/permissions and
these are clearly defaults because I use kdm and not gdm.

Craig