Bug#533424: gnome-settings-daemon failure with VNC server: it requires RandR!

[Christophe Lohr]

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

Hi,
  While opening a gnome session on VNC X11 server, I get a message saying that there was an error starting the GNOME daemon preferences - some features, such as themes, sounds or wallpapers can not function properly - the daemon restarts preferences too many times - GNOME will try to restart the daemon preferences the next time you connect...

..xsession-error reports: 
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "127.0.0.1:2.0".

As far as I understand, xrandr is an optionnal X11 module, and VNC server do not provides it.

gnome-settings-daemon should work without xrandr, isn't it?

Regards,
Christophe



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (200, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.4 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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                         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                   1.2.12-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.80-4     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd0                       0.2.41-4   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1                2.6.0-3    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                  2.24.0-3   GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.23-2  GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0            0.10.23-1  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            2.24.1-2+b1 GNOME screen saver and locker
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:2.24.0-2  A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.4+2       X server utilities

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