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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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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
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