Bug#553000: at the first login via gdm after (re)boot gnome-settings-daemon dies

[Norbert Preining]

On Sa, 31 Okt 2009, preining wrote:
> > I can reproduce the following behaviour: Turn of computer, turn it on
> > and log into a gnome session with gdm. The gnome-settings-daemon
> > is started a short time (I see the right fonts) and then it dies
> > and the fonts change back to default ones.
> > 
> > After that I can start g-s-d manually and all is back to normal.
> > 
> > On logout and login (and waiting between making sure all of the gnome
> > session is stopped) the same does *not* happen.
> 
> I can confirm that this has been introduced by the recent switch
> from metacity to mutter (which was done not by me, but by
> gnome-session). After purging mutter from my system (otherwise
> gnome-session insists on using it instead of metacity) and using 
> metacity again the problem is gone.

I was wrong. Even with metacity this problem occurs, the last 3 times 
I logged into the g-s-d died again with some X error.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining                                        Associate Professor
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Vienna University of Technology                               preining at logic.at
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