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Xiol

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Registered: 2008-08-18

Posts: 3

GConf: "saving configuration settings will not be possible"

Hello folks.

I'm new to Arch, but not new to Linux. This problem has me stumped.

I've just installed Gnome on top of a fresh Arch install, apart from Firefox, a few daemons (HAL, FAM), and some laptop related settings (cpufreq, pm-utils), there's nothing else on here at the minute. I've followed the instructions on the wiki, and I've Googled my heart out about this problem without a solution.

Gnome starts fine and appears to work okay, but it refuses to save certain settings, specifically in the Sessions tool (I'm trying to setup Compiz). When I start the GConf Editor tool, these errors appear in everything.log:

Aug 18 03:32:18 gconfd (dane-7460): starting (version 2.22.0), pid 7460 user 'dane'
Aug 18 03:32:18 gconfd (dane-7460): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Aug 18 03:32:18 gconfd (dane-7460): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/dane/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Aug 18 03:32:18 gconfd (dane-7460): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Aug 18 03:32:18 gconfd (dane-7460): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/dane/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0
Aug 18 03:32:41 lap-de dhcpcd[4889]: eth0: adding IP address 169.254.60.234/16
Aug 18 03:33:22 lap-de dhcpcd[4889]: eth0: adding IP address 169.254.60.234/16
Aug 18 03:34:03 lap-de dhcpcd[4889]: eth0: adding IP address 169.254.60.234/16
Aug 18 03:34:44 lap-de dhcpcd[4889]: eth0: adding IP address 169.254.60.234/16
--- These following errors occur after GConf Editor is started
Aug 18 03:35:11 gconfd (dane-7460): Resolved address "xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Aug 18 03:35:11 gconfd (dane-7460): None of the resolved addresses are writable; saving configuration settings will not be possible
Aug 18 03:35:11 gconfd (dane-7460): Resolved address "xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Aug 18 03:35:11 gconfd (dane-7460): None of the resolved addresses are writable; saving configuration settings will not be possible

I've deleted my ~/.gnome* and ~/.gconf* directories and started again, and this error still appears.

Short of changing the permissions on /etc/gconf (which I presume is The Wrong Thing to do), I'm not sure how else to approach this problem.