Comment 63 for bug 269215

Alright: I tried what you said, but with no success. What you said should
display:

drwxrwxrwx .../tmp

is displayed, but I'm still not able to load my profile, with the same error
messages I was receiving before. Do you have any other suggestions?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Richard Garrett <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you very much, I'll try this ASAP, and I'll post what happens.
>
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> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:58 AM, favoritetort <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
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>> when you have a prompt you can check the pemissions with:
>> # ls -l /
>>
>> you'll then see something like:
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x ....... /tmp
>>
>> there are three sets of permissions, first the owner of the file/directory
>> then the group then everyone else.
>> if everyone can write it will read:
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx .../tmp
>>
>> you can change permissions with chmod using either letters for the
>> permissions or a numeric code
>>
>> 7 means read, write and execute, 777 means everyone can rwx
>>
>> doing
>> # chmod 777 /tmp
>> should do the trick
>>
>> --
>> There is a problem with the configuration server.
>> (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269215
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>> of the bug.
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>> Status in “gconf” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Intrepid Ibex Alpha 5 64bit, All updates applied.
>> Been getting this error after the log-in screen, after doing updates
>> yesterday.
>>
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