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Cannot log in to graphical user interface due to gconf-sanity-check-2 error

Asked by Peter Solfest

I have just made a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit), using the side-by-side installation feature (I am also running Windows 7). I can launch into Ubuntu from the installation CD, from which I installed it. Now when I try to go into the Ubuntu OS, I am first confronted with a message which reads "There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)". I hit close (seeing as that is the only option). I am then brought to a graphical login screen, which has an error in the upper left hand corner stating "Install problem! The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator." I then log into my account, and a black screen appears with only a error message in the center, stating the same thing as previously (There is a problem with the configuration server...).

I have then accessed the terminal via ctrl-alt-f2 and done the following:
-changed permissions on /tmp to rwx for all users
-changed permissions on /etc/gconf/* to rwx for all users
-run aptitude full-upgrade

I also reinstalled it using a different source (USB, with a fresh download). This did not fix the problem.
None of these things have changed the error messages I get when I try to get to the graphical desktop.

Any help in getting GNOME to run appropriately would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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Alpesh Bhavsar (alpeshbhavsar19841) said : 		#1

Hi Peter,

I would suggest to go into CLI mode and then delete all files(including hidden) in /tmp folder, then do restart. It will work.

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Peter Solfest (pmsolfest) said : 		#2

Thank you.
That probably would've worked. It turns out that I just got it working before this. The problem was that I asked Ubuntu to import all my stuff from windows, and it filled up the entire partition. Thus there was no room to write to anything. So I deleted everything in my documents folder, and the system started no problem.