One day when I started my system (no, I can't remember doing any changes more then maybe update some packages) I started to have one nice problem. Shortly after the gnome-splash-screen starts to show I've got a window telling me that the settings-deamon (don't know the exact name, translating from my language) failed to start and was restarted to many times (this both with my old user-profile and a clean user-profile). It also tells me that the childprocess did not give any errormessages. After that my desktop comes up but without showing any backgound-picture nor icons exept the ones generated by totem-thumbnail. The buttons also follows default look and not the one I have specified. However open xnest and loggin in in any of these two users there starts up the desktop without any problems. So shortly: logging in with gdm into the xserver and gconf does not seems to work. logging in with gdm in xnest and everything works as it should. If there is anything more you need from me, just ask. I have gnome-2.12 and xorg-7.0 and have done several emerge -e world to see if that fixes it. --- Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre14 Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.csbnet.se/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" LC_ALL="sv_SE.UTF-8" LINGUAS="sv" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa asf audiofile avi bash bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp browserplugin bzip2 cairo canvas cdr crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam firefox flac fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm gif gimpprint glitz glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gxl hal idn imlib ipv6 java jikes joystick jpeg lcms libg++ libwww lm_sensors logrotate mad matroska mikmod mmx mng mono moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg nautilus ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ntp nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python quicktime readline real recode rtc sdl smp sox spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xinetd xml2 xosd xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_sv userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, PORTDIR_OVERLAY, LDFLAGS
I had some fun: Going from xorg-x11-7.0 to latest stable (xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6) fixed this, so apparently it has something to do with the use of modular X. I am going to investigate futher. And it is fully reproducable on my system nowdays, both in x86 and ~x86 (going to modular from stable and back several times) but I have run gnome earlier with modular without any problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116195 ***
