Ubuntu
control-center package

  1. Bug #61381
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 61381

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Adolfo R. Brandes (arbrandes) wrote :

This is happening to me *every time* I try to login using XDMCP (from Cygwin), up to the latest updates on my Edgy box as of this moment. Edgy was dist-upgraded from Dapper 3 weeks ago. Before the upgrade, everything worked.

Just to be clear: I can login, but the symptoms after that are much like described in gosh's previous comment. I get a brown screen for a few seconds, then a brown screen with a white rectangle on the top-left corner for up to 2 minutes, and finally the following error message (where the white rectangle was):

"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:

Activation of org.gnome.SettingsDaemon timed out

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

After that, I get no menu bars, only the icons on the desktop (with the background image loaded).