gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256

[praveen_kumar]

Hi,

I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 (pretty old i know :$) in my system, but i am facing this issue while logging in .

I tried doing

sudo chmod 755 /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system

but didn't find the problem getting resolved.

Can any one please provide the reason for the same ? Also the solution

Thanks
Praveen

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Have you tried to change permission for all .xml. files in /etc/gconf?

sudo chmod 755 /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.*

In case it doesn't work, post the output of this

ls -l /home

[praveen_kumar]

Thanks for ur quick reply. I tried the same but didn't succeeded
Following is the needed info

root@praveen-2:~# ls -l /home
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 2 01:12 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 4 praveen praveen 4096 Jan 2 08:42 praveen

[devils casper]

If its a GDM relates error then execute this

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

Its a bug in Ubuntu and AFAIK, there isn't a fix for this bug. Could you post full error message?

[praveen_kumar]

root@praveen-2:~#sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
* Reloading GNOME Display Manager Configuration
* Changes will take effect when all current X sessions have ended.
invoke-rc.d: initscript gdm, action "reload" failed.

[praveen_kumar]

Heres the pic of the error message gettng popped

Praveen

[devils casper]

That is a GDM related error only and it was fixed in Updates only. You have to update 8.10 to get rid of this bug.

This might work : Delete .gconf folder in your /home/user_id folder but all of your settings will be removed.

cd 
rm -rf .gconf