On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:58:43 +0200
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Le vendredi 05 septembre 2008 à 21:13 -0400, Daniel Dickinson a
> écrit :
> > On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:46:58 +0200
> > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I suggest that you examine your process list to find out what
> > > process did launch gnome-settings-daemon.
> 
> Until you do that, I really can’t help you. 
> 
> In the 2.20 branch, GDM has nothing to do with gnome-session nor
> gnome-settings-daemon, it only starts the former if it is the
> requested session.
> 
> > All I know is I installed gdm and xfce and couldn't start xfce.  I
> > tracked it down to gnome-settings-daemon being started, which
> > prevents xfce4-mcs-manager from starting even though it is an xfce
> > session.
> 
> Which process is the parent of gnome-settings-daemon?

I am now unable to make the bug happen again (I had removed
gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon in order to boot and
reinstalling them doesn't exhibit the problem), so it may as well be
closed unless I can trigger it again.

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