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

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Oct 31 01:48:53 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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! ;)
> 
> man rpm:
> 
>        S file Size differs
>        M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)
>        5 MD5 sum differs
>        D Device major/minor number mismatch
>        L readLink(2) path mismatch
>        U User ownership differs
>        G Group ownership differs
>        T mTime differs
> 
----
patrick...if the guy is too lazy to type 'man rpm' instead of typing to
the list, 5 times the amount of characters and waiting for someone on
the list to tell him, you really didn't do the list any favors by giving
him the contents.

Craig




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