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Date:      Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:58:11 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Preferences failures with GNOME 2.26.1
Message-ID:  <1240646291.58743.105.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090425063944.GA70378@osiris.chen.org.nz>
References:  <20090425052111.GA95910@osiris.chen.org.nz> <1240638460.58743.103.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090425063944.GA70378@osiris.chen.org.nz>

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On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 18:39 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:47:40AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 17:21 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >=20
> > > I just upgraded from 2.26 to 2.26.1, and I'm finding that my personal
> > > UI preferences are not recognised anymore. When I try to run
> > > "gnome-mouse-properties", it comes back with a dialog box stating:
> > >=20
> > > "Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
> > >  Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not
> > >  take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNO=
ME
> > >  (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting wi=
th
> > >  the GNOME settings manager."
> > >=20
> > > However, a quick "ps ax" reveals a recently started
> > > gnome-settings-daemon. Keyboard settings are similarly affected.
> >=20
> > Do you have a custom pulseaudio configuration?
>=20
> Nope. Just what is installed out of ports. I do notice that the
> process hangs around even after I logout.

Post your default.pa file.

If you kill all the pulseaudio process, then run:

pulseaudio -D

Does gnome-settings-daemon start properly?

Joe

>=20
> Cheers.
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