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davidsmit

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Registered: 2014-12-25

Posts: 11

'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' killed by signal 11

I feel like a total n00b (so I probably am) but this is bothering me for quite some time now.

Whenever I start gnome (3.16.2) I get the stupid "Oh no!" window, saying something is wrong. It is still possible to start applications but one screen (of the two) is covered by the annoying message.

This happens on a completely fresh installed machine. LXDE runs fine, gnome (on wayland, on X) seems to run fine, except for that message. On another machine (Dell XPS13) this issue is not present.

journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-session

Jun 06 14:03:12 kastje gnome-session[10740]: (gnome-settings-daemon:10975): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed
Jun 06 14:03:12 kastje gnome-session[10740]: (gnome-settings-daemon:10975): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_ref_sink: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
Jun 06 14:03:12 kastje gnome-session[10740]: gnome-session[10740]: WARNING: App 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' respawning too quickly
Jun 06 14:03:12 kastje gnome-session[10740]: WARNING: App 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' respawning too quickly
Jun 06 14:03:12 kastje gnome-session[10740]: Unrecoverable failure in required component gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
Jun 06 14:03:12 kastje gnome-session[10740]: gnome-session[10740]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' killed by signal 11

Anyone out there able to point out the dumb mistake I am making?

Last edited by davidsmit (2015-06-06 12:40:06)

davidsmit

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Registered: 2014-12-25

Posts: 11

Re: 'gnome-settings-daemon.desktop' killed by signal 11

Another test conducted:

Reinstall completely, create new user (with empty home). Same result.

Also, after install of gnome-initial-setup, that still runs, on top of the error message! Baffles me. Screenshot.