Bug#537572: The GNOME settings daemon can't connect to session bus and eats CPU

[Émeric Maschino]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.24.1-3
Severity: important

When starting the GNOME desktop environment, the desktop takes several
seconds to fire up and I'm getting an error dialog box stating that the
GNOME settings daemon can't connect to session bus. Furthermore, some
preferences aren't remembered (e.g. sound settings, screensaver settings).

The GNOME settings daemon seems to run properly:
 2562 ?        Rs    38:40 gnome-settings-daemon

Each time I logout/login, a new gnome-settings-daemon process is forked,
also eating as much CPU as it can.

Invoking gnome-settings-daemon from the command line gives:
** (gnome-settings-daemon:4429): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to session
bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked
the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

** (gnome-settings-daemon:4429): WARNING **: Could not get a connection to
the bus
** (gnome-settings-daemon:4429): DEBUG: SettingsDaemon finished

use-session-dbus is set in Xsession.options:
# $Id: Xsession.options 189 2005-06-11 00:04:27Z branden $
#
# configuration options for /etc/X11/Xsession
# See Xsession.options(5) for an explanation of the available options.
allow-failsafe
allow-user-resources
allow-user-xsession
use-ssh-agent
use-session-dbus

I'm not running SELinux on this system.

The following D-Bus and GConf related processes are running:
 1992 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
 2550 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch
--exit-with-session x-session-manager
 2553 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
x-session-manager
 2554 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6
--print-address 9 --session
 2557 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2

x-session-manager points to /usr/bin/gnome-session.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: ia64

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-mckinley (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.26.2-1   GNOME configuration database
syste
ii  libc6.1                       2.9-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics
libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.14-3   simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.80-4     simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]        0.2.41-5   Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA)
-
ii  libfontconfig1                2.6.0-4    generic font configuration
library
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-1   GNOME configuration database
syste
ii  libglade2-0                   1:2.6.4-1  library to load .glade files at
ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.1-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11         2.26.1-1   Utility library for loading
.deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                   2.26.0-1   The GNOME library - runtime
files
ii  libgnomekbd3                  2.26.0-1   GNOME library to manage
keyboard c
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.23-3  GStreamer libraries from the
"base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0            0.10.23-2  Core GStreamer libraries and
eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.1-2   The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.5-1    sends desktop notifications to
a n
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.1-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                        2:1.1.4-1  X11 Input extension library
ii  libxklavier12                 3.9-1      X Keyboard Extension high-level
AP
ii  libxxf86misc1                 1:1.0.1-3  X11 XFree86 miscellaneous
extensio

gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver             2.26.1-1   GNOME screen saver and locker
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]   1:2.26.0-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.4+2      X server utilities

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