gnome-settings-daemon crashes

[Nick S]

On login, gnome-settings-daemon fails to start, with the message "restarted too many times". Trying to run from the terminal turns it, and only it, high-contrast (I assume I accidentally set that theme at some point) until I end it manually, or it segfaults. Due to this, I assume, the volume + and - keys have stopped working and the theme is incorrect.

Running gnome-settings-daemon through gdb gets the following:

xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212
Txrdb: "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212
S(no debugging symbols found)
[1160840057,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1226738000 (LWP 5948)]
0xb6462a70 in ?? ()
(gdb) xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212

(gdb) backtrace
#0 0xb6462a70 in ?? ()
#1 0xb79da021 in gdk_x11_drawable_get_xdisplay ()
   from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#2 0xb79db78c in gdk_events_pending () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#3 0xb79dd3bb in _gdk_events_queue () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#4 0xb79dd7bf in _gdk_events_init () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#5 0xb7706802 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0xb77097df in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 0xb7709b89 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 0xb7b55574 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#9 0x08053f6f in main ()

Thanks,
Nick

[Nick S (pinkcoons)]

Problem report.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. Do you have anything to ~/.xsession-errors about that? Does it happen every time? Could you try running "ltrace gnome-settings-daemon" and not functions called before the crash?

[Justy (justy)]

I just finallly figured out the reason behind crashing of my gnome-settings-daemon. After I erased ~/.gtkrc-2.0 everything turned back to normal. This file (defining default GTK2 theme) was setup for QT theme for some reason. Maybe in my case, since I also have KDE installed, it was replaced by KDE at some point. Btw. I use Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for the comment Justy, do you still have a copy of that file? That might be useful to debug the theme for people who work on it

[Justy (justy)]

Sure. Hopefully it helps. Here it goes:

# This file was written by KDE
# You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts"

include "/usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
        font_name="Sans Serif 10"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-theme-name="Qt"
gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 10"

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The QT was used, gtk-qt-engine bug, reassigning