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aglarond

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 129

gnome-settings-daemon sometimes doesn't start

Hey guys. I have an occasional problem where the gnome-settings-daemon doesn't start on login. If I log out and then back in it usually starts. Or, I can run it by hand and everything works fine. It's not a big deal, but it's a little annoying. Has anybody run into this or does anybody know of a log file or something I can check to see why it doesn't come up?

Thanks
-mS

Last edited by aglarond (2009-01-25 01:01:02)

savantfou

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From: France

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 18

Re: gnome-settings-daemon sometimes doesn't start

Hello,
I've got the same problem.
I didn't find any solution.
If someone has the same problem and find the solution.
Thanks
Tom

fphillips

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From: Austin, TX

Registered: 2009-01-24

Posts: 202

Re: gnome-settings-daemon sometimes doesn't start

This has been happening to me also. A couple questions:
Is your home directory from a previous installation? My $HOME was brought over from Slackware.
Did you disable gnome-power-manager in Session Preferences? Re-enabling it seems to help here.

I didn't test it thoroughly, but a new user doesn't seem to have this problem.

Frank

aglarond

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 129

Re: gnome-settings-daemon sometimes doesn't start

No. I reconfigured Gnome completely when I loaded Arch. The problem looks like it cleared itself up after the last Gnome update to 2.24.3-1 so I'm just going to call this one solved.

-mS

aglarond

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 129

Re: gnome-settings-daemon sometimes doesn't start

I just took [solved] back out of the title so maybe more people will look for you.

-mS

infohigh

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From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2009-01-29

Posts: 6

Re: gnome-settings-daemon sometimes doesn't start

I had this problem, and I have a very fresh arch install; no old homedir, and gnome was installed at version 2.24.1 (current).

However the problem seems to have gone away once I cleared out the files in my $HOME/.config/autostart/
That directory had some .desktop files, including gnome-settings-daemon-helper.desktop (but not gnome-settings-daemon.desktop!).

Actually I find it weird that gnome-settings-daemon.desktop resides (on my system) in /etc/xdg/autostart, whereas gnome-settings-daemon-helper.desktop is in /usr/share/gnome/autostart/.

I'm not sure what the significance of any of this is, or if my entire experience (rm ~/.config/autostart/*) even makes sense. But see if it works for you

Edit: Nevermind, I still have this problem happen sporadically; the above solved nothing, it seems

Any ideas how we can debug this? How can I trace exactly what gnome-session is doing?

Last edited by infohigh (2009-01-29 05:26:16)