| title: | Error Starting the Gnome Settings Daemon |
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I started having the problem described below about two weeks ago. At
first, I tried to find the Gnome Settings Daemon but I guess I dont
know its real name as I was unable to locate it. (My thought was that
perhaps the daemon was not being stopped properly on logout.) I did a
Google search (see below). No help. I searched the Gnome Desktop
archives. No help. I looked in the Gnome documentation (Gnome Web Site)
but the only daemon I could find referred to was the Screensaver Daemon.
I then posted a query on this list (Gnome List) but received no
response, not even an acknowledgment. About a week ago, I posted the
same query on the SuSE Linux English (SLE) list. One person responded
asking for some troubleshooting info (see below) and suggesting that I
run SuSEconfig, which I did. No help. I provided the requested
troubleshooting info but got no real response. (I got one saying that
the person was covered up with work.) I cant complain if people are too
busy or dont have the expertise to help but surely theres someone out
there who has encountered this problem before and has time to post a
short note. If you could just try to remember what you did to fix it or
even suggest a better list to post this query to, Id be eternally
grateful. (Well, may not *eternally*.) (I would post a bug but I dont
know what the bug is.) Anyway, heres the latest post to the SLE list.
It contains pretty much everything I know about this situation.
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(SuSE 9.0, Gnome 2.2.2)
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 09:09, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 06:56, James Ogley wrote:
Yes, I looked at SuSEconfig. I didnt see any obvious settings but
there
are a lot of them so I could have missed one.
its worth running it as it sets permissions on lots of files, and
of
course runs ldconfig (which I sometimes forget to do)
I looked at it but I didnt run it. Based on the above, however, I did
run it. It didnt fix anything. Just so were clear on the symptoms,
I
log out of my usual account, log in to another account, and when I log
back into my usual account, I get the error message. If I reboot the
system, when I log into my usual account, things appear to be fixed
until I log out/log in again.
I suppose its possible it could be a library version mismatch, as a
preliminary check, can you post the output of
rpm -q control-center2 orbit2 bonobo-activation
please?
dhenson@linux:~ rpm -q control-center2 orbit2 bonobo-activation
control-center2-2.2.2-93
orbit2-2.6.3-29
bonobo-activation-2.2.4-38
dhenson@linux:~
Don Henson
(Replying to my own reply)
I dont want to let this thread die without a resolution. When I
researched the archives, I found two threads with the exact same problem
statement and neither thread showed the resolution. One thread went for
a couple of replies but no resolution and the other didnt even get a
reply. I would like the next poor soul with this problem to be able to
find a thread with a resolution attached to it. So you wont have to
look up earlier parts of this thread, heres the original problem
statement:
While running Gnome with no apparent problems, I had occassion to logout
of my usual account and log on as a different account. That Gnome
session also seemed to run okay. However, after logging out and logging
back in to my usual account, I get the following error message:
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There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
correctly.
The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
The last error message was:
Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log
in.
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Interestingly enough, the problem can be temporarily fixed by rebooting
the system. This cant be right. I was told that Linux should never have
to be rebooted. I must be missing something simple.
Hopefully without reading too much into the wording of an error message,
the line that says "The Settings Daemon restarted too many times" leads
me to ask if its possible that the settings daemon is not being
terminated properly when I log out. This hypothesis is strengthened by
the fact that the problem is termporarily fixed by a reboot which would
terminate anything running, such as the settings daemon.
Unforunately, I have pretty much reached the limits of my
troubleshooting abilities. Surely, theres some kind soul out there who
can help me resolve this problem. Any assistance will be sincerely
appreciated.
Don Henson
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