Bug#251110: gnome-session: Produces bunch of errors after latest upgrade. Fails to start.

Adam Majer Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>, 251110@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 29 May 2004 12:33:13 -0500


Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.6.1-5
Followup-For: Bug #251110

The error I'm getting is,

 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.

It would be nice to know in the message *where is GNOME Settings Daemon?*
What settings were used to start it?

Please make error messages better than these "Windows" type error messages. 
If you want, add an "Advanced" button before displaying gory details.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  desktop-base              0.3.14         common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-3        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.0-2        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                   0.2.29-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
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  libgnome2-0               2.6.1-2        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.1-4        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 Inter-Client Exchange library
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  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.10-2       GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxrandr2                4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-3    compression library - runtime

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