(SuSE 9.0, Gnome 2.2.2) On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 09:09, Donald D Henson wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 06:56, James Ogley wrote:
Yes, I looked at SuSEconfig. I didn't see any obvious settings but there are a lot of them so I could have missed one.
it's worth running it as it sets permissions on lots of files, and of course runs ldconfig (which I sometimes forget to do)
I looked at it but I didn't run it. Based on the above, however, I did run it. It didn't fix anything. Just so we're clear on the symptoms, I log out of my usual account, log in to another account, and when I log back into my usual account, I get the error message. If I reboot the system, when I log into my usual account, things appear to be fixed until I log out/log in again.
I suppose it's possible it could be a library version mismatch, as a preliminary check, can you post the output of rpm -q control-center2 orbit2 bonobo-activation please?
dhenson@linux:~> rpm -q control-center2 orbit2 bonobo-activation control-center2-2.2.2-93 orbit2-2.6.3-29 bonobo-activation-2.2.4-38 dhenson@linux:~>
Don Henson
(Replying to my own reply) I don't want to let this thread die without a resolution. When I researched the archives, I found two threads with the exact same problem statement and neither thread showed the resolution. One thread went for a couple of replies but no resolution and the other didn't even get a reply. I would like the next poor soul with this problem to be able to find a thread with a resolution attached to it. So you won't have to look up earlier parts of this thread, here's the original problem statement: While running Gnome with no apparent problems, I had occassion to logout of my usual account and log on as a different account. That Gnome session also seemed to run okay. However, after logging out and logging back in to my usual account, I get 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: 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. ===== Interestingly enough, the problem can be temporarily fixed by rebooting the system. This can't be right. I was told that Linux should never have to be rebooted. I must be missing something simple. Hopefully without reading too much into the wording of an error message, the line that says "The Settings Daemon restarted too many times" leads me to ask if it's possible that the settings daemon is not being terminated properly when I log out. This hypothesis is strengthened by the fact that the problem is termporarily fixed by a reboot which would terminate anything running, such as the settings daemon. Unforunately, I have pretty much reached the limits of my troubleshooting abilities. Surely, there's some kind soul out there who can help me resolve this problem. Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated. Don Henson Don Henson