Bug#404876: no background screen activity in GDE or KDE @debian
Rick Thomas
rbthomas55 at pobox.com
Sun Jan 7 06:11:31 CET 2007
On Jan 6, 2007, at 2:21 AM, pranay prateek wrote:
> hi
> I am using debian 2.6 kernel .
> When i log in , the screen which i am greeted with doesnt show any
> activity in the background screen .i.e i dont get any pop up when
> i click mouse on my background , no icons in my desktop screen and
> having a constant color .
> this problem pervades through all display manager and desktop
> environments . i have tried (gdm,kdm)*(kde,xfce,gde) but all have
> the same problem .
> when i login to gde it shows the following error message :
>
> "
> 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:
>
> System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : 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.
> "
>
> Can any body suggest how this error can be rectified ?
>
> Thanx.
>
> PS: please include my email id in CC of the reply as i have not
> subscribed to debian-users list
>
>
>
> --
> Pranay Prateek
> 3rd Yr Electrical Engineering
> Room No 339 ,Jamuna
> IIT Madras
Pranay,
This sounds a lot like <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?
bug=404876> What hardware are you using? Is it a G3 based OldWorld
PowerMac, by any chance? If so, does the workaround in the bug
report help? If not on G3 PowerMac hardware, then it's even *more*
interesting to know if the workaround helps!
Enjoy!
Rick
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