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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:38:34
Message-Id: yu9ocvzq17x.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon by Allan Gottlieb
1 At Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:32:44 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
2
3 > Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to
4 > 2.24.
5 >
6 > Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently).
7 > This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login,
8 > I can get in and work, but whenever I try
9 > system>preferences>appearance
10 > I get a dialog box saying that gnome-settings-setting cannot be started.
11 >
12 > Although I can get to the appearance dialog, various fonts are too big
13 > and can't be changed.
14 >
15 > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
16
17 For anyone bitten by this a workaround is in this bug
18 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256016
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20 allan