From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 23:05:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AED937B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:05:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (smtp-3b.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B5343FDF for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@fud.org.nz) Received: from [192.168.0.252] (203-79-110-29.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.110.29]) by smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56BDAEADF for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:05:25 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew Thompson To: FreeBSD GNOME Users In-Reply-To: <1051162546.47874.49.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <03Apr24.155123nzst.119041@homer.fire.org.nz> <1051162546.47874.49.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1051164577.5973.21.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 24 Apr 2003 18:09:37 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Gnome 2.3 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 06:05:28 -0000 On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 17:35, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 23:51, Andrew Thompson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I have upgraded to Gnome 2.3 using marcusmerge and I am getting the > > following error while loggin in. Everything seems to be working fine > > anyway (well, except evolution 1.3.2 is spinning 100% cpu on the splash > > screen). > > > > > > "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: > > Failed to read from child process: Operation not supported by device > > GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log > > in." > > How are you starting GNOME (gdm, startx, etc.)? startx with gnome-session in my .xinitrc I have also created a new user with an empty home dir for testing. > Do you have any errors in ~/.xsession-errors or on the console? Only this on the console: "** (gnome-panel:694): WARNING **: Unable to load panel stock icon 'go'" > Did you have GNOME 2.2 working previously? Yep, worked fine. > Have you tried moving ~/.gnome2/session out of the way, then starting GNOME? As above, I created a new user with an empty homedir, same error message. Andy