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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:44 pm    Post subject: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Reply with quote

Hi
When i start X with Gnome as my desktop environment, i got the following error message:

Quote:
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.
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.


It only occures when starting it with my user..with root it doesn't occure.

Quote:
cat ~/.xinitrc
exec gnome-session


Quote:
cat /etc/conf.d/xdm
CHECKVT=7
DISPLAYMANAGER="slim"


Quote:
in rc.conf:
XSESSION="Gnome"


What should i do?
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Mike Hunt
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you create a test user account and login Gnome

do you get the same result?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike Hunt wrote:
If you create a test user account and login Gnome

do you get the same result?

Good idea!
I have just tested it and no, with the new testuser i don't get the error message.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try adding
Code:
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`

to your .xinitrc file
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anon-E-moose wrote:
Try adding
Code:
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`

to your .xinitrc file

Thank you. But this doesn't seem to work :(
He exports dbus and shows some text in the console but the error still occures.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm when it does work with a new testuser...then it seems to be my user that is corrupted.
But the only difference i see is the ~/.xinitrc file.

When i delete this file, it works!
Maybe this is because of slim that is executed first and is calling the Gnome-session itself?

However thank you for the advice with the testuser!
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How are you starting X? xdm or startx

never mind, i relooked at the original post :oops:


Edit to add: your .xinitrc file should be fine, according to slim documentation
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