Bug#251168: gconf2: error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon

[Gian Luigi Gragnani]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.6.1-2
Severity: normal


After the last upgrade, in two different machines, when I start
X -Window and Gnome (via startx) a window opens with the following
messages:
------------------Message begins here -----------------
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.

The last error message was:

Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
-------------------------Messge end ------------------------------------

Actually some settings do not work, also after restarting X.

One PC has lot of Gnome packages installed, such has Nautilus,
Evolution, and so on, while the other contains a minimal installation
with metacity, gnome-panel, gnome-terminal and few other packages.

Any hint or suggestion?

Thank you

Gian Luigi Gragnani

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.6.1-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.6.1-2      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.1-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.4.1-4      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.4.0-3      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2                     2.6.10-1     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1.1-3  compression library - runtime

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