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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings daemon failed]
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:47:24
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0903250447g7287c7ecwf65d3f179a5c45c0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings daemon failed] by Peter Humphrey
1 On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Peter Humphrey
2 <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:19:59 Michael Sullivan wrote:
4 >> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
5 >> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
6 > wrote:
7 >> > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive.  I set it up for use
8 >> > > with MythTV.  It worked fine.  So now I wanted to turn the old myth
9 >> > > partition into my /home filesystem.  I reformatted it (mke2fs
10 >> > > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mnt/floppy and moved my directories
11 >> > > in /home over to it, then unmounted it, mounted it on /home and
12 >> > > logged in.  Now almost every time I do anything I get a notice saying
13 >> > > that gnome-settings-daemon has crashed.  I don't even kwow if it will
14 >> > > let me send this email, but I've attached the bug report.  Please
15 >> > > somebody help me!
16 >> >
17 >> > Were you logged in as a user when you moved the /home directories?
18 >> > Maybe there were some open files that got messed up...
19 >>
20 >> I logged out of gnome, shut down xdm, and then logged in as root to
21 >> move /home.
22 >
23 > Just to ask the obvious: you don't have both partitions mounted on /home do
24 > you? And you have changed /etc/fstab to suit the new layout?
25 >
26 > --
27 > Rgds
28 > Peter
29
30 In the forums I found some posts on this subject which lead to looking
31 at Bugzilla reports. On my wife's machine I tried downgrading
32 libxklavier to version 3.6. It fixed the problem on her machine. There
33 were also reports of someone doing some changes using gnome's config
34 editor and fixing it that way.
35
36 - Mark