System restore progresses, new problems seen

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 21:25 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>     (/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.

Google for that exact error message (correctly spelled though) for some
ideas. Various people have had it before you, and have found various
solutions.

> 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.

This strongly suggests a permissions issue, probably to do with gconf
config files. Look in /etc/gconf for files that only root can *read*
that probabaly should be readable by others...

> This may be all one problem originating with the gnome-power-manager,
> but I have already done a reinstall.  It does not help.

Try a remove --purge, then a new install.

Regards, K.

PS: Stabbing in the dark here, I actually have no clue :-)

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