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

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:37 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> 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! ;)
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Dan
> >
> Here is more info:
> 
> [root at bronze dant]# cd /etc/gdm
> [root at bronze gdm]# diff custom.conf custom.conf.rpmnew
> 4,7d3
> < Enable=true
> < Willing=/etc/gdm/Xwilling
> < Xaccess=/etc/gdm/Xaccess
> < Port=177
> [root at bronze gdm]# ls -lZ custom.conf custom.conf.rpmnew
> -rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0       custom.conf
> -rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0       custom.conf.rpmnew
> [root at bronze gdm]# ls -ldZ /var/log/gdm
> drwxrwx--T  root gdm system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 /var/log/gdm
> [root at bronze gdm]# ls -lZ /var/log/gdm
> -rw-r--r--  106 114 system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :0-greeter.log
> -rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :0.log
> -rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :1.log
> -rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :2.log
> -rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :3.log
> -rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :4.log
> -rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:xserver_log_t:s0 :5.log
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are you running selinux? targeted? if so, are you checking the logs to
find errors and fixing them?

anyway, the selinux contexts are not an issue

chmod 755 /var/log/gdm

I don't know anything about the entries in your 'custom.conf'

Craig