From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 25 08:17:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B79106566B for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:17:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (ip-58-28-152-174.static-xdsl.xnet.co.nz [58.28.152.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1E48FC1C for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:17:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5101328418; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:16:59 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:16:59 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20090425081659.GA90564@osiris.chen.org.nz> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1240646291.58743.105.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preferences failures with GNOME 2.26.1 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: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:17:12 -0000 --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="default.pa" #!/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 --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--