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Date:      24 Apr 2003 01:35:47 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Gnome 2.3 upgrade
Message-ID:  <1051162546.47874.49.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <03Apr24.155123nzst.119041@homer.fire.org.nz>
References:  <03Apr24.155123nzst.119041@homer.fire.org.nz>

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On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 23:51, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have upgraded to Gnome 2.3 using marcusmerge and I am getting the=20
> following error while loggin in.  Everything seems to be working fine=20
> anyway (well, except evolution 1.3.2 is spinning 100% cpu on the splash=20
> screen).
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> "There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
> Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not=20
> 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=20
> in."
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> My system is "5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #4: Fri Apr  4 23:14:12=20
> NZST 2003 i386", pkg_info attached.  I rebuilt gnome last night again=20
> with portupgrade -rf pkgconfig but it made no difference.

How are you starting GNOME (gdm, startx, etc.)?  Do you have any errors
in ~/.xsession-errors or on the console?  Did you have GNOME 2.2 working
previously?  Have you tried moving ~/.gnome2/session out of the way,
then starting GNOME?

Joe

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> thanks,
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> Andy
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