Gnome crashes on startup after update, no volume control or appearance
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-
Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager.
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Beta
Installed the latest update (10-22-08), rebooted and now my theme is gone, my volume control is gone and rhythmbox (among many other apps) won't start...
Here is the output from 'lshw'
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ubuntu
description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
physical id: 0
size: 351MiB
*-cpu
product: AMD Sempron(tm) 2400+
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.8.1
size: 1650MHz
width: 32 bits
*-cache:0
size: 128KiB
*-cache:1
size: 256KiB
*-pci
product: 741/741GX/M741 Host
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
*-isa
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-ide
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.5
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-usb:0
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-usb:1
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-usb:2
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.2
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-usb:3
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.3
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-network
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
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Have never had this problem before, and everything was working great before this update
Doing this in a terminal fixed it for me, but I still had to manually re-add the volume control back to the bottom panel: gstreamer- 0.10/libgstlibv isual.so libgstlibvisual .so.OLD
sudo mv /usr/lib/
Thank you for all your hard work