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FS#4339 - Problem starting gnome-settings-daemon, or perhaps not?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Saturday, 01 April 2006, 23:00 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 02 April 2006, 19:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Every other time I start X, Gnome gives me the following message:


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:

System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : 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.


Evidently gnome-settings-daemon starts successfully despite the message, judging from the fact that I still have the GTK theme and fonts I specified. However, the popup message is rather irritating.

Also, the next time I start up Gnome, the settings daemon seems to start up a bit late, because I get about a second of default fonts and the "Default" GTK theme (beige and squarish) before my own theme and fonts appear.
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Saturday, 08 April 2006, 10:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 02 April 2006, 09:23 GMT
The default theme stuff is a timing issue. By default, when you don't use gnome-settings-daemon at all, GTK does a fallback to the default gnome theme (without this, you'll get a nice red cross and several warnings about missing icons when gnome-settings-daemon isn't running). With GNOME 2.14, things run on startup start parallel. So it could happen that your panel is started before the settings daemon, in which case it will show the default gnome theme.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 02 April 2006, 09:31 GMT
Could you try to kill the gnome-session daemon and start it from a terminal, putting all output of it in this bugreport? I have no idea why it wouldn't be able to start. Another option is to look in your ~/.xsession-errors, I guess that file has some useful output.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 02 April 2006, 19:32 GMT
The cause is a missing dependency on gstreamer0.10. Arjan: while you're adding those nice and shiny patches, you can also do a rebuild with correct dependencies ;)
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Monday, 03 April 2006, 07:19 GMT
hmmm gstreamer0.10base was allready there...

strange

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