[ale] ongoing problems w/ users on CentOS 5.3 ....

[WAM III]

.... This is submitted as a follow-on to another thread I started from
home w/ approximately the above subject line. I am logged in (&
list-subbed) from work to hopefully expedite. I tried the procedure as
recommended on the other thread (boot in runlevel 3, blow away
all .gnome* diles/directories, then startx & let gnome initialize
itself). that failed, but w/ (hopefully) some clues. I attach the last
few lines from my syslog file which reference gconfd & 1 gnome error.
When the gnome startup failed, it put up a dialog saying it failed to
connect to socket /tmp/dbus-wX8NISVDe7 w/ a 'connection refused'. It
also had dialogs saying that Nautilus had an unexpected error from
Bonobo when trying to register the file manager view server. Everything
else looks OK (permissions, SELinux contexts, etc.). The account is just
the stub created by the 'users & grioups' manager, w/ the old directory
renamed to a non-conflicting name in /home. Please advise & thanks in
advance for your time & any clues :-) ....
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Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Successfully called chroot().
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Loading service file /services/sftp-ssh.service.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::215:f2ff:fe74:cce9.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.0.10.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Registering new address record for fe80::215:f2ff:fe74:cce9 on eth0.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Registering new address record for 192.168.0.10 on eth0.
Sep  2 10:27:32 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'.
Sep  2 10:27:33 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Server startup complete. Host name is 3200a.local. Local service cookie is 1595012919.
Sep  2 10:27:34 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Service "SFTP File Transfer on 3200a" (/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: smartd version 5.38 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen 
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/  
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf 
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices 
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/hdb, opened 
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/hdb, found in smartd database. 
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/hdb, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. 
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/hdc, opened 
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/hdc, packet devices [this device CD/DVD] not SMART capable 
Sep  2 10:27:35 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/sda, opened 
Sep  2 10:27:36 3200a smartd[3141]: Device /dev/sda: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer. 
Sep  2 10:27:36 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/sda, opened 
Sep  2 10:27:36 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/sda, found in smartd database. 
Sep  2 10:27:36 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. 
Sep  2 10:27:36 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/sdb, opened 
Sep  2 10:27:36 3200a smartd[3141]: Device: /dev/sdb, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sdb' to turn on SMART features 
Sep  2 10:27:36 3200a smartd[3141]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 1 SCSI devices 
Sep  2 10:27:36 3200a smartd[3143]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=3143. 
Sep  2 10:28:53 3200a gconfd (lws-3300): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 3300 user 'lws'
Sep  2 10:28:53 3200a gconfd (lws-3300): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Sep  2 10:28:53 3200a gconfd (lws-3300): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/lws/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Sep  2 10:28:53 3200a gconfd (lws-3300): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Sep  2 10:28:55 3200a hcid[2478]: Default passkey agent (:1.4, /org/bluez/applet) registered
Sep  2 10:28:55 3200a gnome-power-manager: (lws) Critical error: This program cannot start until you start the dbus session service.  This is usually started automatically in X or gnome startup when you start a new session.
Sep  2 10:28:56 3200a pcscd: winscard.c:304:SCardConnect() Reader E-Gate 0 0 Not Found
Sep  2 10:28:56 3200a last message repeated 2 times
Sep  2 10:28:56 3200a nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin ifcfg-rh: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Sep  2 10:28:56 3200a nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ... 
Sep  2 10:28:56 3200a nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh:     error: Ignoring loopback device config.
Sep  2 10:28:56 3200a nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ... 
Sep  2 10:28:56 3200a nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh:     read connection 'System eth0'
Sep  2 10:31:46 3200a ntpd[2769]: synchronized to 216.180.54.1, stratum 3
Sep  2 10:31:46 3200a ntpd[2769]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
Sep  2 10:32:20 3200a avahi-daemon[3061]: Invalid query packet.
Sep  2 10:32:21 3200a last message repeated 2 times
Sep  2 10:36:03 3200a restorecond: Will not restore a file with more than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) Invalid argument