System restore progresses, new problems seen

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:25:32 -0800
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> After a few harrowing weeks, my rebuild of my decade-old server has
> gotten to the point that Ubuntu 11.04 boots up and it's serving my web
> pages.  Whew!
> 
> There are, however, one or two problems, however.  On bootup, a dialog
> appears with a message I wrote down as
>     The config defaults for gnome-power-manager
>     have not been installed correctly.
>    Contact your computer administrator.   (Of course, I'm the computer
> administrator and I have no idea what to do about this.)
> In addition, a bit later in bootup and on all attempts at a user GUI
> login, another appears:
>     There is a problem with the configuration server.
>     (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-chaek-2 exited 256)
> And the login attempt fails.  That's what makes this one urgent.  No
> user graphical logins.
> 
> The problem occurs for a brand-new user account as well as inherited
> ones.  Non-graphical logins are okay.   Strangely, if I create a root
> password, root can log in graphically.
> The user cannot log in if I delete all dotfiles and directories from
> the home directory.  Neither does it work to copy over all of root's
> dotfiles and directories and change ownership.
> 
> Note that this is a restored backup of the system as it was, at the
> same release level but on vastly different hardware.  So if there was
> special configuration to be done on installation, it did not get
> re-done for the new machine.  This is a fairly heavily configured
> system, and I really really don't want to re-do it.
> 
> This may be all one problem originating with the gnome-power-manager,
> but I have already done a reinstall.  It does not help.
> 
> Any ideas what I should look at now?
> 
Googling on, "gconf-sanity-check-2 exited 256," produced this forum fix:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=917306
There are four pages of various fixes so don't be discouraged.
It looks like a permissions problem in the /tmp directory.

Cybe R. Wizard
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