[hardy] gnome-settings-daemon doesn't start

[Hervé Cauwelier]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

Just started my session and I have the default Gnome icons and colors, with ridiculously small fonts.

I read this when trying to start gnome-settings-daemon by hand:

$ gnome-settings-daemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:7298): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:7298): WARNING **: Could not acquire name
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7298): DEBUG: SettingsDaemon finished

Sending it a signal to restart doesn't change anything.

ii gnome-settings-daemon 2.21.90.1-0ubuntu3 GNOME settings daemon

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Is dbus working correctly? Do you have issues with other things?

[Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount)]

I forgot about this bug. It was fixed a few days later.

Let's close it.

[trisa (dietisheim)]

current version has that bug again... (it was fixed for some days and reappeared with the last update): 2.22.0-0ubuntu1 (hardy)

trisa@pmobilead:~$ gnome-settings-daemon
The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 89 error_code 1 request_code 151 minor_code 6)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

[David Gillies (daveg)]

I'm also seeing the same error as trica

[drjimmy42 (jjrussell)]

Just upgraded today and the BadRequest bug is still there. Is there any workaround to get GSD started?

[Damiano Dallatana (damidalla)]

Same behaviour here with Hardy installed as Alpha6 and updated as of yesterday.
The starting g-s-d manually gets:

$ gnome-settings-daemon
** (gnome-settings-daemon:14409): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon
** (gnome-settings-daemon:14409): WARNING **: Could not acquire name

[NoOp (glgxg)]

Same here following an upgrade from Gutsy to 8.04.1 using the latest Alternate 8.04.1 CD. gnome-settings-daemon 2.22.1-0ubuntu2. Hardware is an IBM Thinkpad A21.

Tried reinstalling:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-settings-daemon
and that stops on "Unpacking replacement gnome-settings-daemon" w/disk light constant on.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

I've resolved this issue on my Thinkpad (which is a T21 - the A21 had no issues). I stumbled across this after I found that I could no longer ping localhost or hostname. What I found:

1. /etc/network/interfaces had the following line commented out:

# iface lo inet loopback

I uncommented the line.

2. I used the following to bring up loopback:

sudo ifconfig lo localhost
sudo route add localhost dev lo

courtesy of: <http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showpost.php?s=8089ac6575f0425788949c951c5b3e8b&p=657273&postcount=7>

I also found a similar blog regarding the same:
<http://arunpc.com/2008/06/01/ubuntu-there-was-an-error-starting-the-gnome-settings-daemon/>

After I was able to reliably ping localhost I no long get the gnome-settings-daemon msg.

[Tanath (tanath)]

I still get this bug often on first login. I have to log out and back in to fix it. I have no problems pinging localhost.