From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:38:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9ocvzq17x.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9ljr4lnnn.fsf@nyu.edu> (Allan Gottlieb's message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:32:44 -0400")
At Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:32:44 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to
> 2.24.
>
> Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently).
> This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login,
> I can get in and work, but whenever I try
> system>preferences>appearance
> I get a dialog box saying that gnome-settings-setting cannot be started.
>
> Although I can get to the appearance dialog, various fonts are too big
> and can't be changed.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
For anyone bitten by this a workaround is in this bug
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256016
allan
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