gnome-settings-daemon not logged in when started

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

Many a times I get this error box popping after logging into GDM .

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The last error message was:

Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in

I have to shutdown the machine twice or thrice & reboot it after which it doesn't come.

Reproducible :- Sometimes.

How to reproduce :- I have no idea. Going beyond that, no idea what or where to look to give more hints to the developers.

Version :- 2.21.91-0ubuntu2

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

When this issue next hits you could you please open a terminal
and run

  ps aux | grep settings

and see if gnome-settings-daemon is running. If not can you run

  gnome-settings-daemon

and paste any output in to the bug report?

Thanks,

James

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

This is possibly bug 197153

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/197153

Could you please attach you ~/.xsession-errors next time you
experience this?

Thanks,

James

[Jeff Schroeder (sejeff)]

This bug is confirmed. Here is a log of starting g-s-d

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 17:26 +0000, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> This bug is confirmed. Here is a log of starting g-s-d
>
> ** Attachment added: "logsave g-s-d.log gnome-settings-daemon"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12385898/g-s-d.log
>

Thanks,

The critical part seems to be

parse error

There have been a couple of mentions of this, so it seems to be
affecting a few people.

I'll try and look in to the error later.

Thanks,

James

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

It would be useful to know your video card and driver.

Thanks,

James

[JuanRobles (jurobles)]

Is there a command I can run in a terminal to grab that info for you?
This is happening on a fujitsu laptop I am preparing for a friend. I can
cut and paste that info and send it to you.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
James Westby
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:04 PM
To: Robles, Juan
Subject: [Bug 193560] Re: [Hardy] gnome-settings-daemon not logged in
whenstarted

Hi,

It would be useful to know your video card and driver.

Thanks,

James

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[Hardy] gnome-settings-daemon not logged in when started
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193560
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of a duplicate bug.

[JuanRobles (jurobles)]

I apologize. Just found this on the manufacturers website:

Integrated Intel 855GM graphics chipset.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
James Westby
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:04 PM
To: Robles, Juan
Subject: [Bug 193560] Re: [Hardy] gnome-settings-daemon not logged in
whenstarted

Hi,

It would be useful to know your video card and driver.

Thanks,

James

--
[Hardy] gnome-settings-daemon not logged in when started
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193560
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of a duplicate bug.

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 21:14 +0000, JuanRobles wrote:
> Is there a command I can run in a terminal to grab that info for you?
> This is happening on a fujitsu laptop I am preparing for a friend. I can
> cut and paste that info and send it to you.

Hi,

I don't know of the most convenient way, but if you could
get the output of

  lspci -vvnn

and then attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log that would
be great.

Thanks,

James

[Jeff Schroeder (sejeff)]

Launchpad needs a "multiple file uploader". This computer has dual Nvidia Quadro FX 1700 cards.

[JuanRobles (jurobles)]

Just ran lspci -vvnn:
Intel 82852/ 855gm integrated graphics

[JuanRobles (jurobles)]

/var//xorg.0.log attached

[JuanRobles (jurobles)]

UPDATE: After last nights Distribution Update the error has finally been corrected. The Screen Saver is functioning correctly, The Window Border theme was recover and is functioning as well as the Icon theme. I believe i am now the proud owner of Hardy Alpha 6? Although i had no idea that there would be an upgrade last night, I am still thankful the error has been resolved with the release. Thank you all!

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 15:14 +0000, JuanRobles wrote:
> UPDATE: After last nights Distribution Update the error has finally been
> corrected. The Screen Saver is functioning correctly, The Window Border
> theme was recover and is functioning as well as the Icon theme. I
> believe i am now the proud owner of Hardy Alpha 6? Although i had no
> idea that there would be an upgrade last night, I am still thankful the
> error has been resolved with the release. Thank you all!
>

Congratulations! It's a baby Heron!

Thanks,

James

[JuanRobles (jurobles)]

UPDATE: Sorry to say, after this saturdays updates (03/08/2008) this bug has resurfaced itself. When the laptop powered on after all the updates were complete, this horrible error once again showed its ugly teeth.

[JD (jacobdorne)]

same as above here on my toshiba satellite a50 laptop.

I have attached a screenshot, what g-s-d says when starting it from a terminal and my confs.

I have an Intel 855GM graphics card.

[Simone Tolotti (simontol)]

It's happening the same here with an Nvidia GF7300.
I've fixed disabling Xrandr plugin in gnome-settings-daemon section of gconf as said here : bug 197153
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/197153

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Here's mine

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

It happened couple of times yesterday. Sorry wasn't able to do what u asked above.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does anybody still get the issue on hardy? in which case can you describe how to trigger it and attach your .xsession-errors to the bug?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

[Dee (deedw)]

Hello,

I still have the problem and set the bug to incomplete in hope my infos will be enough to fix it.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

$ ps aux | grep gnome-settings
dee 6052 0.0 0.0 162828 4024 ? Ss 07:37 0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8304 Release
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

(I'm using the standard fglrx-driver from the repository.)

Attached you find a tar-file with ~/.xsessions-error, /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

My current solution: Even if the "gnome-settings-daemon" is started do

$ gnome-settings-daemon

in a terminal. Then it take a little time and the correct theme will be installed and everything works as it should.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.