From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 15:58:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D40616A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-16-118.biz.rr.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C129643D2F for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) i3DMvlkf021504; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:57:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Andrew Thomson In-Reply-To: <1081896653.11882.1.camel@itouch-1011.prv.au.itouchnet.net> References: <1081842754.94842.6.camel@itouch-1011.prv.au.itouchnet.net> <1081859913.95770.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1081896653.11882.1.camel@itouch-1011.prv.au.itouchnet.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Dn8NJGeC6whgQ26oe2Ax" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1081897083.839.69.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:58:03 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome settings daemon failing to start X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:58:06 -0000 --=-Dn8NJGeC6whgQ26oe2Ax Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:50, Andrew Thomson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 22:38, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 03:52, Andrew Thomson wrote: > > > Hi, > > >=20 > > > After my upgrade to 2.6, everything went smoothly except for when I > > > startup, I get a little dialogue complaining that the "gnome settings > > > daemon" could not be started and thefore I get dodgy icons on the > > > desktop. > > >=20 > > > I have created a new user and tried starting gnome and it all comes u= p > > > perfectly. So I assume I have something funny lying around in one of = the > > > gnome . directories. > > >=20 > > > I have tried removing some obvious ones but no luck yet... > > >=20 > > > .esd_auth > > > .gconf > > > .gconfd > > > .gnome > > > .gnome2 > > > .gnome2_private > > > .metacity > > > .nautilus > > >=20 > > > Any clues on what's causing this problem? > >=20 > > You should try launching /usr/X11R6/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon by > > hand to see exactly why it's not coming up. > >=20 > > Joe >=20 > Probably doesn't help much, but running the gnome-settings-daemon once > everything has started results in a working gnome-settings-daemon!! >=20 > Restarted X again but still doesn't want to start on startup! Okay, then what you need to do is start it manually, then save your session, and log back in. Joe >=20 > ajt. >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-Dn8NJGeC6whgQ26oe2Ax Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAfHB6b2iPiv4Uz4cRAj1pAKCRziGY/vQ+UgRGGXSAV37ksnN5EACfXn87 bm7z7ik8RmmsFyUpRd7o6BI= =WoCZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Dn8NJGeC6whgQ26oe2Ax--