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On 09/03/2009 03:38 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: |
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> Hello Everyone, |
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> Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt |
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> computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) |
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> Just a few porblems with this fresh install: |
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> When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox: |
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> There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. |
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> Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work |
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> correctly. |
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> The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. |
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That error message became very familiar to some of us during the upgrade |
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from gnome 2.24 to 2.26 on ~x86 a few months ago. |
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The underlying problem is that gnome-session tries to start a session dbus |
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and fails (I am told) due to a bug in gnome-session. So the fix is to start |
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gnome-session with 'dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' in your |
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~/.xinitrc (if you use startx.) |
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Alternatively you can use 'exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome' in your .xinitrc, |
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or, if you use gdm, you can set XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf, which |
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executes exactly the same shellscript indirectly. |
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The whole point of the above is that a session dbus has to be running |
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*before* gnome-settings-daemon is started, or you will get the error you |
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quoted above and nothing works right after that. |
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