From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjHGs-0004ga-Gl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:42:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F4A9E0B51; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B280E0B51 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18966502F for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:51:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.467 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.467 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.868, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jCgBRVeLCFzC for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AE364FE2 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MjM5I-0000Xq-33 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:51:20 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-190-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.190.234]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:51:20 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-190-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:51:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:51:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: <46d08bd30909031538o1bfc5ee0ya47466ddf6489d25@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-190-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090903 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: <46d08bd30909031538o1bfc5ee0ya47466ddf6489d25@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 03219f23-d888-4624-82ec-1bc0a275511e X-Archives-Hash: 5c92d77fdb353d192314a33a1f99519a On 09/03/2009 03:38 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt > computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) > > Just a few porblems with this fresh install: > > When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox: > > 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. That error message became very familiar to some of us during the upgrade from gnome 2.24 to 2.26 on ~x86 a few months ago. The underlying problem is that gnome-session tries to start a session dbus and fails (I am told) due to a bug in gnome-session. So the fix is to start gnome-session with 'dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' in your ~/.xinitrc (if you use startx.) Alternatively you can use 'exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome' in your .xinitrc, or, if you use gdm, you can set XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf, which executes exactly the same shellscript indirectly. The whole point of the above is that a session dbus has to be running *before* gnome-settings-daemon is started, or you will get the error you quoted above and nothing works right after that.