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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:32:58 +1000
From:      Andrew Thomson <andrewjt@applecomm.net>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnome settings daemon failing to start
Message-ID:  <1081909977.76324.1.camel@itouch-1011.prv.au.itouchnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <1081897083.839.69.camel@gyros>
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On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 08:58, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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,
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > I have created a new user and tried starting gnome and it all comes up
> > > > perfectly. So I assume I have something funny lying around in one of the
> > > > gnome . directories.
> > > > 
> > > > I have tried removing some obvious ones but no luck yet...
> > > > 
> > > > .esd_auth
> > > > .gconf
> > > > .gconfd
> > > > .gnome
> > > > .gnome2
> > > > .gnome2_private
> > > > .metacity
> > > > .nautilus
> > > > 
> > > > Any clues on what's causing this problem?
> > > 
> > > You should try launching /usr/X11R6/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon by
> > > hand to see exactly why it's not coming up.
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > 
> > Probably doesn't help much, but running the gnome-settings-daemon once
> > everything has started results in a working gnome-settings-daemon!!
> > 
> > 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.
> 

Sorry to be a pain,, no love after saving session and restarting..

Is this the normal output from gnome-settings-daemon ?

/usr/X11R6/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
                                                                                ** (gnome-settings-daemon:76363): WARNING **: Unexpected error in waitpid() (No child processes)
                                                                                
** (gnome-settings-daemon:76363): WARNING **: Command xrdb -merge failed
                                                                                
** (gnome-settings-daemon:76363): WARNING **: Unexpected error in
waitpid() (No child processes)

Thanks,

ajt.

> Joe
> 
> > 
> > ajt.
> > 



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