Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:58:03 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Andrew Thomson <andrewjt@applecomm.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome settings daemon failing to start Message-ID: <1081897083.839.69.camel@gyros> 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>
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--=-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--
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