Date: 24 Apr 2003 02:38:38 -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: <1051166318.47874.52.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1051164577.5973.21.camel@localhost> References: <03Apr24.155123nzst.119041@homer.fire.org.nz> <1051162546.47874.49.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1051164577.5973.21.camel@localhost>
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--=-8OTiy61CE+siIbe98bc0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 02:09, Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 17:35, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 23:51, Andrew Thompson wrote: > > > Hi, > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > 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 spla= sh=20 > > > screen). > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > "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." > >=20 > > How are you starting GNOME (gdm, startx, etc.)? >=20 > startx with gnome-session in my .xinitrc >=20 > I have also created a new user with an empty home dir for testing. >=20 > > Do you have any errors in ~/.xsession-errors or on the console? >=20 > Only this on the console: >=20 > "** (gnome-panel:694): WARNING **: Unable to load panel stock icon 'go'" >=20 > > Did you have GNOME 2.2 working previously? >=20 > Yep, worked fine. >=20 > > Have you tried moving ~/.gnome2/session out of the way, then starting= GNOME? >=20 > As above, I created a new user with an empty homedir, same error > message. Have you tried running gnome-settings-daemon by hand from a gnome-terminal? That output might prove useful. You might also try doing ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf as root. This shouldn't be necessary as there are other -CURRENT users testing GNOME 2.3, and none of them have complained yet. But you never know. Oh, also, what are the perms on /tmp? Joe >=20 >=20 > Andy >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-8OTiy61CE+siIbe98bc0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+p4Zub2iPiv4Uz4cRAkJpAJ42cnUBQZuxV3hdIS+KgGlY3oCskwCggOOj wp7YU2fpuu1J8qU0MKt05O8= =e9d3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-8OTiy61CE+siIbe98bc0--
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