Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:50:53 +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: <1081896653.11882.1.camel@itouch-1011.prv.au.itouchnet.net> In-Reply-To: <1081859913.95770.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1081842754.94842.6.camel@itouch-1011.prv.au.itouchnet.net> <1081859913.95770.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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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! ajt.
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