From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 16:51:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C59516A400 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:51:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B8813C45D for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id l3JGpl519087; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:51:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.202.122] (dhcp-64-102-202-122.cisco.com [64.102.202.122]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id l3JGplq29524; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:51:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <46279E20.5050302@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:51:44 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trigve Siver References: <619726.65882.qm@web52710.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <619726.65882.qm@web52710.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome-settings-daemon problem under gnome 2.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:51:48 -0000 Trigve Siver wrote: > Hi, > I have update gnome to gnome 2.18. I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg 7.2 with X11BASE set to /usr/local. When I try to log in gnome the message window with this message popup: > > There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. > > Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. > > The last error message was: > > Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. > > GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. > > output from /var/log/messages: > > Apr 18 12:17:33 pentium4 seahorse-agent[1677]: DNS-SD initialization failed: Dae > mon not running > Apr 18 12:17:33 pentium4 seahorse-agent[1677]: Failed to send buffer > Apr 18 12:17:33 pentium4 seahorse-agent[1677]: Failed to send buffer This points to D-BUS and avahi not running on your system. Try adding either: gnome_enable="YES" or dbus_enable="YES" avahi_daemon_enable="YES" avahi_dnsconfd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, then reboot. If you still get problems starting g-s-d, try running it manually from the command line (/usr/local/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon) after you login. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome