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. -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore: http://www.wightman.ca/~cshore
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