Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:16:59 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preferences failures with GNOME 2.26.1 Message-ID: <20090425081659.GA90564@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <1240646291.58743.105.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20090425052111.GA95910@osiris.chen.org.nz> <1240638460.58743.103.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090425063944.GA70378@osiris.chen.org.nz> <1240646291.58743.105.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:58:11AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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,
> > > >
> > > > 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:
> > > >
> > > > "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-GNOME
> > > > (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with
> > > > the GNOME settings manager."
> > > >
> > > > However, a quick "ps ax" reveals a recently started
> > > > gnome-settings-daemon. Keyboard settings are similarly affected.
> > >
> > > Do you have a custom pulseaudio configuration?
> >
> > 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.
Attached. There's no difference from the default.pa-dist.
> If you kill all the pulseaudio process, then run:
>
> pulseaudio -D
>
> Does gnome-settings-daemon start properly?
As I was killing the pulseaudio processes, the screen blinked, and
my mouse and keyboard preferences suddenly took effect.
At least I now have a workaround...
Cheers.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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#!/usr/local/bin/pulseaudio -nF
#
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
# Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
# This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user
# (i.e. not in system mode)
.nofail
### Load something into the sample cache
#load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/local/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/local/sounds/startup3.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug /usr/local/sounds/startup3.wav
#load-sample-lazy pulse-access /usr/local/sounds/generic.wav
.fail
### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
.ifexists module-gconf.so
.nofail
load-module module-gconf
.fail
.endif
### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
### Load audio drivers statically (it's probably better to not load
### these drivers manually, but instead use module-hal-detect --
### see below -- for doing this automatically)
#load-module module-alsa-sink
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink
### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-hal-detect.so
load-module module-hal-detect
.else
### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that
### lack HAL support)
load-module module-detect
.endif
### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
#.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
#load-module module-bluetooth-discover
#.endif
### Load several protocols
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish
### Load the RTP reciever module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-rtp-recv
### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 description="RTP Multicast Sink"
#load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor
### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user during runtime
load-module module-default-device-restore
### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are
### connected to dies, similar for sources
load-module module-rescue-streams
### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink
### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
load-module module-console-kit
### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds
# X11 modules should not be started from default.pa so that one daemon
# can be shared by multiple sessions.
### Load X11 bell module
#load-module module-x11-bell sample=bell-windowing-system
### Register ourselves in the X11 session manager
#load-module module-x11-xsmp
### Publish connection data in the X11 root window
#.ifexists module-x11-publish.so
#.nofail
#load-module module-x11-publish
#.fail
#.endif
### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input
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