[Hardy] Error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon

[Wousser]

After loggin into Gnome I got the following error that gnome-settings-daemon is not running
output of: ps aux | grep settings
wouter 7905 0.0 0.0 3000 756 pts/0 R+ 19:05 0:00 grep settings

starting gnome-settings-daemon in a terminal shows the following error:
wouter@wouter-desktop:~$ gnome-settings-daemon
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Successfully connected to D-Bus
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Starting settings manager
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading settings plugins from dir: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/typing-break.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/typing-break.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/dummy.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/dummy.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xrdb.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xrdb.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/clipboard.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/clipboard.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/sound.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/sound.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/mouse.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/mouse.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/keybindings.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/keybindings.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/a11y-keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/a11y-keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/background.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/background.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xsettings.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xsettings.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/screensaver.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/screensaver.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/media-keys.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/media-keys.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xrandr.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xrandr.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/font.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Could not find valid 'Priority' in /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/font.gnome-settings-plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsModule 0x807f600 initialising
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libfont.so
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Registering GsdFontPlugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Creating object of type GsdFontPlugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: GsdFontPlugin initializing
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Activating font plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Starting font manager
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Plugin font: active
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsModule 0x807f518 initialising
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libkeyboard.so
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Registering GsdKeyboardPlugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Creating object of type GsdKeyboardPlugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: GsdKeyboardPlugin initializing
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Activating keyboard plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Starting keyboard manager
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Plugin keyboard: active
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsModule 0x807f568 initialising
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Loading /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libxrandr.so
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Registering GsdXrandrPlugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Creating object of type GsdXrandrPlugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: GsdXrandrPlugin initializing
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Activating xrandr plugin
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7907): DEBUG: Starting xrandr manager
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 1541 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.)
[1204481191,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the applicationwouter@wouter-desktop:~$

the backtrace has no stack nor registers.
bug 140469 and 193560 are similar.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what videocard and driver are you using?

[rbmorse (rbmorse)]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 18:03 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 197153 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197153
>
> what videocard and driver are you using?
>
ATI X1950XTX (R580+) using the latest radeonhd driver built from git.

Ron Morse