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  • Bug#266429: gconf2: gnome settings daemon failed to start

    From Lee Revell@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 23:10:10 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: gconf2
    Version: 2.6.3-2
    Severity: important


    After most recent apt-get upgrade, every time I log in I get 'The gnome settings daemon failed to start', with something about it having
    restarted too many times, and not having returned an error. All of my
    settings of course are lost.

    I tried creating a new user and logging in as this user to rule out a
    problem with corrupt files in .gconf, same issue.

    This is all that appears in the logs:

    Aug 17 16:44:24 krustophenia gconfd (rlrevell3-958): starting (version 2.6.3), pid 958 user 'rlrevell3'
    Aug 17 16:44:24 krustophenia gconfd (rlrevell3-958): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
    Aug 17 16:44:24 krustophenia gconfd (rlrevell3-958): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/rlrevell3/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
    Aug 17 16:44:24 krustophenia gconfd (rlrevell3-958): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2

    gconfd does in fact appear to be running:

    root@mindpipe:/home/rlrevell# ps auxww | grep gco
    rlrevell 1152 1.4 1.2 7200 5940 ? S 16:46 0:06 /usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 5

    So the error is possibly not in gconfd but a bug in the way some
    other part of gnome talks to it?

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

    Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
    ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
    ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgconf2-4 2.6.3-2 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
    ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.4-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libxml2 2.6.11-3 GNOME XML library
    ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime

    -- no debconf information


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