I use Gnome on ~amd64 and everything is working fine.
I don't use pulse audio, just alsa.

I also had those issues with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.35 as Paul said.
Other than that I can't think of something right now.
Are all packages well? `revdep-rebuild` returns no problems ?


2009/5/1 Paul Hartman
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> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:51 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm asking because gnome is working perfectly on my ~x86 machine
> > but not on my ~amd64.
> >
> > The problem is that gnome-settings-daemon and pulse audio are
> > crashing during startup, i.e. they appear as defunct processes
> > once gnome is up and running.
> >
> > It's a bit like the bug a few months ago where the "gnome-settings-
> > daemon restarted too many times" error message popped up, but this
> > time there are no error messages anywhere.
> >
> > Another odd thing is that I can't use Ctrl-C to kill any processes
> > that I start from an xterm.
> >
> > Anyone else having similar problems?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I had the same problem. In my case it was caused by
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.35  and changing to a different version
> fixed it. Maybe you should check to see if you are using this version,
> or try a different version (older/newer)... if you're not using
> nvidia-drviers at all, then I have no idea what to say except "good
> luck" :)
>
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