From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 25 20:38:24 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 8CEB81065746 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:38:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (marcuscom-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B648FC21 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:38:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3PKdZBQ003880; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:39:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Jonathan Chen In-Reply-To: <20090425203531.GA13468@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> <20090425081659.GA90564@osiris.chen.org.nz> <1240685406.58743.122.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090425203531.GA13468@osiris.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-M7JpzYAjcBJV/3MzM2S7" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:38:25 -0400 Message-Id: <1240691905.58743.130.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com 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 20:38:25 -0000 --=-M7JpzYAjcBJV/3MzM2S7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 08:35 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 02:50:06PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 20:16 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > 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, > > > > > > >=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 sta= ting: > > > > > > >=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-GNOME > > > > > > > (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and confli= cting with > > > > > > > the GNOME settings manager." > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > However, a quick "ps ax" reveals a recently started > > > > > > > gnome-settings-daemon. Keyboard settings are similarly affect= ed. > > > > > >=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. > > > >=20 > > > > Post your default.pa file. > > >=20 > > > Attached. There's no difference from the default.pa-dist. > > >=20 > > > > If you kill all the pulseaudio process, then run: > > > >=20 > > > > pulseaudio -D > > > >=20 > > > > Does gnome-settings-daemon start properly? > > >=20 > > > As I was killing the pulseaudio processes, the screen blinked, and > > > my mouse and keyboard preferences suddenly took effect. > > >=20 > > > At least I now have a workaround... > >=20 > > On what version of FreeBSD are you running? >=20 > FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 3 08:10:13 NZDT 2009 root@osiris.chen= .org.nz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OSIRIS=20 I'm running on: FreeBSD shumai.marcuscom.com 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #46: Sat Apr 18 15:13:13 EDT 2009 marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com:/build/obj/build/src/sys/SHUMAI i386 And pulseaudio works fine. Can you upgrade to the latest -STABLE, and see if the problem goes away? 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