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 Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject: Another Gnome Settings Daemon Failing to Start Issue |
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Like so many other posts I've read, I'm suffering from a similar gnome start-up message:
| Code: | 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:
System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. |
And then none of my themage (ui, icons, etc) are shown. Firefox is missing all ui elements except the menubar and statusbar.
I actually had a similar message (differing only in the "last error message") with gnome 2.12, so I unmasked the brand spanking new 2.14 ebuilds and crossed my fingers as they built. Surprisingly, everything merged just fine with no errors (even though the package.mask told me to expect otherwise). Since 2.14 exhibited the same issue, I've tried reemerging lots of stuff and removing lots of .gconf and .gnome stuff from /tmp and ~... but nothing seems to help.
Is there somewhere I could look for more debugging info? ~/.xsession-errors doesn't contain anything fatal... and neither does the output of startx. |
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jwj
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, that was exactly it. In fact, all I did to solve the problem -- apparently completely -- was to remove the mouse InputDevice block and the line in the ServerLayout that references it. I expected this to cause a mouseless X server or crash if that's not allowed. Instead, I'm greeted with my themed gnome desktop with no message, and ALL of the buttons on my MX518 work fine (even the side buttons). I thought this was only feasible with the evdev driver, which makes me think it's still using that driver.... Basically I have no idea how this is working.
This is funny because I did emerge -eva control-center last night. |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for lines like the following:
| Quote: | (WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
Using the first core pointer device. |
Your first core pointer device, I expect, is Driver "mouse" rather than Driver "evdev"  |
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mcbonaman
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: Re: Another Gnome Settings Daemon Failing to Start Issue |
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| Thread wrote: | Like so many other posts I've read, I'm suffering from a similar gnome start-up message:
| Code: | 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:
System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. |
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Hello everybody, I have had the same error launching startx. I have a new fresh installation with xorg 7.0 anche gnome 2.14.
No errors ware found in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
I am using Driver "mouse"
I have tried to remove InputDevice block and the line in the ServerLayout that references it but doing so I receive the same error.
Any hint? |
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GexNZ
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:34 am Post subject: |
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I am having the same problem mcbonaman. xorg 7.0 and gnome 2.14.
Did you find a resolution for this? |
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GexNZ
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| I remerged control-center and now it doesn't throw that error, but it doesn't load gnome either. Just sits with the Gnome loading screen with nothing happening. |
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hookooekoo
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I am have the same problem, a resolution would rock. |
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Scorpion-c
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I am having the same error terror. Re emerged a lot of Gnome packages. But nothing worked. |
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man in the hill
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:34 am Post subject: |
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Hi ,
I'm having the same problem on my gentoo unstable amd64 + gnome-2.14 + xorg7 + gcc-4.1.1  !
Any idea ?
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Solution_9
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: |
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Same here.
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mc_bluebeard
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| Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:31 am Post subject: Any solution to this yet?! |
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Please! I'm dying here! Same symptoms. Taking out the
mouse part of my xorg does not alleviate this.
Thx!
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Tazmanian
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I got this when attempting to switch to the evdev X11 mouse driver. To fix this, I had to not only revert to using the old "ExplorerPS/2" mouse driver, but I also had to unload the evdev module from the kernel. |
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purplerhino
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| if anyone is using gnome 2.12, upgrading gnome-base/control-center to 2.12.3-r1 (from 2.12.3) fixed this problem for me, gnome fine using evdev. |
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freeflyer
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| I find the same error as that listed in the original post. If more info is needed please request. |
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