Bug#543342: gnome-settings-daemon: G-S-D fails to start

[Stephen P Williams]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 24 août 2009 à 07:43 -0400, Stephen P. Williams a écrit : 
>   
>> On all of my Debian systems (both x86 and x86_64), gnome-settings-daemon has
>> started to report an error message at login time that says:
>>     
>
>   
>>   stevew at roadkill:~$ gnome-settings-daemon
>>
>>   ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8503): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon
>>
>>   ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8503): WARNING **: Could not acquire name
>>     
>
> Is dbus-x11 installed? Is the session bus daemon running?
>
> Cheers,
>   


Josselin,

Yes, I think to both questions:

stevew at wallace:~$ dpkg --list dbus-x11
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  dbus-x11       1.2.16-2       simple interprocess messaging system 
(X11 de
stevew at wallace:~$ ps -fe | grep dbus
stevew   14707 14613  0 Aug05 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/ssh-agent 
/usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/seahorse-agent 
--execute x-session-manager
stevew   14713     1  0 Aug05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon 
--fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
stevew   14714     1  0 Aug05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch 
--exit-with-session /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute x-session-manager
stevew   21214 13346  0 08:58 pts/0    00:00:00 grep dbus
103      22701     1  0 Aug05 ?        00:00:12 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon 
--system


Steve