Intrepid: Unable to start the settings manager gnome-settings-daemon
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Every restart, I get large font sizes once logged in. clicking the appearance menu I get this error. Screenshot attached.
Then the appearance menu comes up. Usually the fonts reset to my preferences. Otherwise I bring up appearances menu and the fonts then reset.
Hardy 64Bit - Asus M3A78-EH,2 250gig HD's, AMD64x2 5200+, 2gig ram, NVidia 8600GT 512meg.
Proprietary driver in use.
philinux (philcb) wrote : | #1 |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount) wrote : | #2 |
Dean Loros (autocrosser) wrote : | #3 |
Also confirmed here--happens on a ill-regular basis...will add to report after I get back from weekend trip.
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : | #4 |
could you try running gnome-settings-
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount) wrote : | #5 |
this was fixed for me with some unknown update a few weeks back, gnome-settings-
http://
philinux (philcb) wrote : | #6 |
Fixed with updates. No problems now. Please close this bug.
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
Marco Amador (amador) wrote : | #7 |
I still have this problem. Starting gnome-settings-
redintray (redintray) wrote : | #9 |
I've been running the updates to Intrepid Beta for a week, or so, without problems. Today's updates resulted in the problem reported here. My first indication that there was a problem was that the window decorations had changed colour and the menu titles were in a larger font than usual.
When I go to the appearance menu the error message mentioned above is displayed. When I run the gnome-setting-
[Might be unrelated: My system was originally installed as a Kubuntu 7.04 and has been upgraded through Gutsy and Hardy to Intrepid beta]
James Westby (james-w) wrote : | #10 |
redintray (redintray) wrote : | #11 |
Thanks James.
Removing libvisual-
Cheers!
Akdo (menoft) wrote : | #12 |
Hi there, same problem here this appear sometime at the opening of the session and when I change the resolution of my screen too.
I'm on Intrepid up to date.
In the intrepid I haven't this file /usr/lib/
Akdo (menoft) wrote : | #13 |
Problem persist
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Fix Released → New |
Akdo (menoft) wrote : | #14 |
confirm this bug
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
mannheim (kronheim) wrote : | #15 |
I have what may be the same problem. I do not have libvisual-
The symptoms are that, on login, the theme is wrong (an old-style default gnome look to controls and icon-set). I go to Preferences-
I can usually trigger this bug by logging out and then logging in again as quickly as possible. If I wait a while at the login screen, then the bug does not show itself. (This is not 100%, and I'm not too sure.) I have experienced this on all three of my machines, all of which run intrepid. None of the machines showed this behavior with Hardy.
Again this may be a different bug (themes versus fonts), but looks similar in some respects.
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : | #16 |
could somebody provide a gnome-settings-
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Paul Whipp (paul-whipp) wrote : | #17 |
I've just updated 8.10 today and I now have this problem for the first time. When I restarted the machine it came up in a different theme and reports the error if I go to the appearances option.
Running gnome-settings-
I'll happily supply logs or other help if you can tell me where to look for them.
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : | #18 |
did you run gnome-settings-
Paul Whipp (paul-whipp) wrote : | #19 |
No - there is no manual documentation for gnome-settings-
This should help (I'm pretty sure I remember there being an update for gstreamer in the latest updates so that is likely to have caused the current issue):
[code]
~ $ gnome-settings-
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demizer (jeezusjr) wrote : | #20 |
Hey guys and gals,
Running Intrepid Ibex, on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (It's better than the Macbook I traded to my wife...), with 2gig ram, and Compiz.
I am having the exact same problem as Paul Whipp. Suspend is a hit or miss with this thing and I had to shutdown this morning because it just would not suspend (a different bug). When I turned it back on, everything was ugly as hell. I did not receive any error messages until I went to System-
Restarting the X Server, restarting Linux, starting gnome-settings-
Here is the log output:
[00:01:37 demizer]$ gnome-settings-
** (gnome-
** (gnome-
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** (gnome-
** (gnome-
** (gnome-
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** (gnome-
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** (gnome-
...
Paul Whipp (paul-whipp) wrote : | #21 |
Its only a suspicion from an old developer but gstreamer looks guilty here. My sound system is also failing to work which is preventing a lot of applications from running. I have a feeling that too has the same underlying problem in that the gstreamer update has introduced a bug with wide ranging effects.
If its only affecting a few systems there must be a lot more to it of course although I always worry about the silent majority who give up on the OS when they hit a problem like this and go back to Windows/Mac etc.
Let me know if I can run any other diagnostics to help pin it down - AFAIK I'm running a very standard 8.10 system except for the nvidia drivers needed for the hardware.
tekstr1der (tekstr1der) wrote : | #22 |
My symptom is slightly different in that upon booting the OS the theme and fonts remain, yet my desktop is gone. I cannot interface whatsoever with the desktop. If I go to System>Appearance I receive the error "unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-
This occurs with a frequency of about 1 out of 3 or 4 boots. I have followed similar threads and taken the following actions: 1)reinstalled dbus 2)completely removed libvisual-
~$ gnome-settings-
** (gnome-
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** (gnome-
tekstr1der (tekstr1der) wrote : | #23 |
To add to my comment above, this is happening with greater frequency for me now. 4 boots in a row this morning with no desktop and no ability to interact with the desktop. At work, I need to boot to the 2.6.27-9 kernel to use my USB CDMA wireless modem as -11 breaks it and realized that this issue has never occurred when doing so and seems to be exclusive to -11. Just wondering if this is happening to others with a different kernel?
seventeener (anton-item) wrote : | #24 |
Same problem appeared after I installed gstreamer0.
Interpid 32-bit.
Paul Whipp (paul-whipp) wrote : | #25 |
I don't have gstreamer0.
I do have
gstreamer0.
gstreamer0.
gstreamer0.
gstreamer0.
gstreamer0.
If a full list would be handy, let me know how to produce it - synaptic search on gstreamer yields a very long list including pidgin (no longer working) and totem (no longer working).
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : | #26 |
the bug is confusing now and some issues have been fixed since, close it now, those who still have issues in jaunty should open new bugs about those
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
edza (edvardzak) wrote : | #27 |
I have exactly this bug on Intrepid:
"mannheim wrote on 2009-03-02: (permalink)
I have what may be the same problem. I do not have libvisual-
The symptoms are that, on login, the theme is wrong (an old-style default gnome look to controls and icon-set). I go to Preferences-
I can usually trigger this bug by logging out and then logging in again as quickly as possible. (...) "
However I suppose I might have an non-standard installation with an Intrepid install where UNR has been manually added, so I first thought it was due to UNR but now I'm not sure after finding this bug... I read somewhere that it could be risky to upgrade to Jaunty with UNR so it would be nice to get this working :) It's on a SD card in EeePC 901.
same problem, seems to be down to gnome-settings- daemon not starting on login. same problem for a clean new user account. starting gnome-settings- daemon manually after gnome-session has started rectifies the fonts and theme. attached .xsession-errors file
using hardy 64bit, asus m3a motherboard, nvidia 8500gt proprietary
gnome-session: archive. ubuntu. com intrepid/main Packages dpkg/status
Installed: 2.23.92-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.23.92-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 2.23.92-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
gnome-settings- daemon: archive. ubuntu. com intrepid/main Packages dpkg/status
Installed: 2.23.92-0ubuntu3
Candidate: 2.23.92-0ubuntu3
Version table:
*** 2.23.92-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
metacity: archive. ubuntu. com intrepid/main Packages dpkg/status
Installed: 1:2.23.610-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1:2.23.610-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1:2.23.610-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/