[csw-users] Gnome fails on read-only filesystem

[Oscar del Rio]

I have installed CSWgnome 2.6 on our NFS file server
and copied the dtlogin files to my workstation that mounts
/opt/csw read-only from the NFS server.

Gnome works fine when I login to the file server, but when
I try it on the workstation I get the following errors

"The files that contain your preference settings are currently in use."

"Cannot resolve the address
xml:readonly:/opt/csw/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory in the
configuration file /opt/csw/etc/gconf/2/path"

"Failed: Could not make directory
/opt/csw/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory: Read-only file system"

The directory gconf.xml.mandatory exists and is readable.

If I edit gconf/2/path and comment out the xml:readonly: line
I get the same error for gconf.xml.defaults, which also exists.

Commenting out both xml:readonly: lines there are
no more errors and the session starts but without panels, just
a blank desktop with a couple of icons, I guess because no defaults
are loaded.

Why is the gnome session trying to create these directories?
They are supposed to be "xml:readonly".

Thanks

Oscar