[HARDY] Gnome-Settings-Daemon Crashing with XrandR plugin

[Sam Williams]

I have been updating Hardy on a regular basis. I have had a problem with the gnome-settings-daemon crashing on login for the last month. I logged a problem before but it was shutdown because the failure didn't result in a crash file that could be uploaded. I found that if I go into gconf-editor and turn off the xrandr plugin under gnome-settings everything works fine.

By the way, the problem has been around for a month, then last week with the libc disaster I reinstalled to the current release of Hardy and the problem returned. I would really appreciate a little help on this one... not sure where to turn... Like I said it works now, but I shouldn't have to disable the plugin without a little better rationale.

It would be really handy if there were a debug version of gnome-settngs that could be installed for additional information.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

gnome-settings-daemon:
  Installed: 2.22.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.22.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

nvidia-glx-new:
  Installed: 169.12+2.6.24.11-12.31
  Candidate: 169.12+2.6.24.11-12.31
  Version table:
 *** 169.12+2.6.24.11-12.31 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Drate Otin (drate-otin)]

I am having the SAME problem with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 Beta with an (Nvidia) NV18 GeForce4 MX 4000.

I am SO grateful for the workaround provided here but I agree this sounds like a verifiable bug. :)

The problem ONLY began when I installed the Restricted Driver which turned on Compiz and such. I rather think it has something to do with Compiz because I seem to recall uninstalling Compiz and getting rid of the problem. Can someone else support this theory?

Also, a quick check in the Ubuntu forums suggests this is no new issue.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.