On 09/03/2009 03:38 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt
computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait)
Just a few porblems with this fresh install:
When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox:
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.
That error message became very familiar to some of us during the upgrade
from gnome 2.24 to 2.26 on ~x86 a few months ago.
The underlying problem is that gnome-session tries to start a session dbus
and fails (I am told) due to a bug in gnome-session. So the fix is to start
gnome-session with 'dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' in your
~/.xinitrc (if you use startx.)
Alternatively you can use 'exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome' in your .xinitrc,
or, if you use gdm, you can set XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf, which
executes exactly the same shellscript indirectly.
The whole point of the above is that a session dbus has to be running
*before* gnome-settings-daemon is started, or you will get the error you
quoted above and nothing works right after that.
