"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. GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in." There is no other information about it. Icons are, of course, broken. This is with gnome-2.24*
is it 2.24.1-r1 ? I remember you said it had a 2 and 4 and a 3 which doesn't match what's actually in tree. Could you also paste your emerge --info ?
Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.27-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:40:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r15, 2.5.4-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -g" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -g" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="clean distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/man/de* /usr/share/man/es* /usr/share/man/fr* /usr/share/man/it* /usr/share/man/sv* /usr/share/man/ru* /usr/share/cups/templates/de* /usr/share/cups/templates/be* /usr/share/locale/be* /usr/share/locale/ca* /usr/share/locale/cs* /usr/share/locale/da* /usr/share/locale/de* /usr/share/locale/el* /usr/share/locale/es* /usr/share/locale/fr* /usr/share/locale/gl* /usr/share/locale/he* /usr/share/locale/hr* /usr/share/locale/hu* /usr/share/locale/it* /usr/share/locale/ja* /usr/share/locale/ko* /usr/share/locale/nb* /usr/share/locale/nl* /usr/share/locale/pl* /usr/share/locale/pt* /usr/share/locale/ru* /usr/share/locale/sk* /usr/share/locale/sv* /usr/share/locale/tr* /usr/share/locale/uk* /usr/share/locale/zh* /usr/share/*/doc*/be* /usr/share/*/doc*/de* /usr/share/*/doc*/es* /usr/share/*/doc*/fr*" LANG="en_US.UTF8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/brontes3d /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://lex-portgate/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apm artwork-extra artworkextra audiofile avahi bash-completion bluetooth branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cscope cups curl daap dbus dga dia djvu dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread dvi eds emboss enca encode enscript esd evolution exif extrafilters fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gentoo ggi gif glitz gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gstreamer gstreamer010 gtk gtk2 hal hald howl howl-compat iconv imagemagick inkjar ipod isdnlog jpeg justify lcms libcaca libclamav libnotify live logrorate mad mailwrapper md5sum meanwhile midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mng moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp2 mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz nautilus ncurses networkmanager nptl nptlonly nsplugin oav ogg openal opengl openmp pcre pda pdf plotutils png postscript ppds pppd prediction pwdb python qt3support quicktime quotas rar readline reflection rtc samba scrobbler sdk sdl session sha1 silvercity skey slang smp spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tagwriting tcpd tga theora tiff tk truetype unicode urandom usb userlocales vim-pager vorbis winbind wma wmf xinerama xml xml2 xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="access auth authz_host auth_dbm auth_anon auth_digest alias file-cache echo charset-lite cache disk-cache mem-cache ext-filter case_filter case-filter-in mime-magic cern-meta expires headers proxy proxy-connect proxy-ftp proxy-http info include cgi cgid dav dav-fs vhost-alias speling rewrite log_config logio env setenvif mime status autoindex asis negotiation dir imap actions userdir so" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Hi Gilles, You are correct, this is 2.24.1-r1 indeed.
Created attachment 179855 [details] strace output Strace of gnome-settings-daemon 2.24.1 starting up then exiting. UI elements flash briefly into my chosen theme while I ran gnome-settings-daemon, but reverted back to defaults once it exited. strace /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon > g-s-d.strace 2>&1
(In reply to comment #0) > "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. > GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next > time you log in." > > There is no other information about it. Icons are, of course, broken. > > > This is with gnome-2.24* > I have the same issue. Even with an emerge -e gnome, I still have this same trouble.
For me downgrade libxklavier to 3.6 fix the problem
(In reply to comment #6) > For me downgrade libxklavier to 3.6 fix the problem > Yes ! Me too ! :-) Thanks !
I haven't tried downgrading libxklavier but I had the same issue. I found disabling keyboard support in the gnome_settings_daemon fixed it for me - I will have to try the downgrade though, good advice. Here's what I did - can also be done through gconf-editor. gconftool-2 -t bool -s /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/a11y-keyboard/active false gconftool-2 -t bool -s /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/keyboard/active false
What do you guys use as login manager? I noticed that gnome-settings-daemon crashes when logging in from kdm but everything runs fine, when I log in from gdm.
I get this behavior as well, and I do not use a graphical login manager; gnome-session is started from .xinitrc
Just as a data point, I got this when I had forced kernel modesetting on.
Same issue here for some time now. I always get the window with the error message. Still, sometimes a gnome-settings-daemon is already working and all I have to do is close that window. Other times, though, I have to manually run /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon from a shell. I am running a quad-core system. I don't use a login manager. I run statx and have "exec gnome-session" in my .xinitrc . There was bug #239293 but it got closed and fix did not solve my problem. Hope this helps... ~~
I thought somebody filled an upstream bug already but it seems I was mistaken.
btw, it would really be useful if any of you could get a backtrace of this problem (maybe some wrapper script setting GTK_MODULES="bug-buddy" or some other trick could help you get that).
Using 'exec dbus-launch gnome-session' instead of 'exec gnome-session' in .xinitrc fixes this for me; don't know if it is the correct fix...
(In reply to comment #15) > Using 'exec dbus-launch gnome-session' instead of 'exec gnome-session' in > .xinitrc fixes this for me; don't know if it is the correct fix... > unless your X starting doesn't take /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ into account, this shouldn't change anything.
Same problem here, but it just got much worse in the last two days. Now gnome won't start up past the point where my wallpaper gets displayed unless I use the "dbus-launch gnome-session" trick. Lots of defunct processes like these: $ps ax |grep defunct 12143 tty2 Z 0:00 [gnome-settings-] <defunct> 12155 ? Z 0:00 [xrdb] <defunct> 12161 tty2 Z 0:00 [gnome-volume-ma] <defunct> 12164 tty2 Z 0:00 [pactl] <defunct> 12166 tty2 Z 0:00 [start-pulseaudi] <defunct> Note that the names of those defunct processes are incomplete. Any clues what that means? (Those are not typos.) In spite of that, gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-volume-manager *are* running and working properly. For me, downgrading libxklavier did nothing; disabling any keyboard plugins for gnome-settings-daemon did nothing. Gilles, can you explain a bit more about the GTK_MODULES=bug-buddy? Is that an environment variable? Why not just set it in the environment, then? Thanks!
Confirme. Same problems as comment #17 gentoo ~ # ps aux | grep Z USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 16916 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:29 0:00 [gnome-settings-] <defunct> root 16920 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:29 0:00 [gnome-settings-] <defunct> root 16941 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:29 0:00 [xrdb] <defunct> root 16951 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:29 0:00 [start-pulseaudi] <defunct> root 27198 0.0 0.0 9068 920 pts/0 R+ 18:53 0:00 grep --colour=auto Z I didn't report the bug because I'm on gcc-4.3 hardended witch is not official supported. Anyway is seems that is not related to my emerge --info. Here is my emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc23 (hardened/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r3, 2.6.28-gentoo-r2-costel x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r2-costel-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:40:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.51.0.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 x86 ~amd64 ~x86" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -march=native -mtune=native -ftree-vectorize -ftracer -combine -fstack-protector -DFORTIFY_SOURCES=2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -march=native -mtune=native -ftree-vectorize -ftracer -combine -fstack-protector -DFORTIFY_SOURCES=2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests candy distlocks fixpackages lmirror nodoc parallel-fetch preserve-libs sfperms strict suidctl unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://localhost http://mirrors.xservers.ro/gentoo/ http://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/ http://mirrors.evolva.ro/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ro_RO.UTF-8" LC_ALL="ro_RO.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--warn-once,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="ro en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--progress --delete-before --human-readable" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/added /usr/portage/local/toolchain /usr/portage/local/mozilla" 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Okay, downgrading gconf to 2.22.0 has fixed both problem for me, so next I'll try installing gconf from the svn repo and try to track it down further.
I'm doing something wrong. The last version of gconf.svn that works for me is 2.22.0, and even then it doesn't work quite right -- the background manager won't display any wallpaper. Maybe one of you could do better.
I think I'm beginning to understand this problem. Just reverting gconf back to 2.22.0 didn't fix the problem. Along the way I had reemerged most of my gnome packages while running gconf-2.22.0, and *then* I rebooted to find that everything had started working again. Then I found out that installing various versions of gconf from svn re-screwed up everything -- and that re-emerging the same old gnome packages *again* fixed the problem. My current theory is that any app that installs files into /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ will need to be reemerged after upgrading to gconf-2.24.0, just to get those config files in the new gconf format. I'm about to test that theory by reinstalling gnome yet again.
I was only half right. Completely reinstalling gnome fixed the hanging and defunct-ing but the settings daemon still has that startup bug. Now, using "dbus-launch gnome-session" completely avoids the startup bug and makes everything work normally. Anyway, I fixed the hanging problem on a second machine just by copying over the newly generated /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml. I can attach it here if anyone wants it.
Yes, please. It would be kind of you if you'll attach the file. Just for clarification: it is necessary to recompile entire gnome and replace the file, recompile entire gnome, start with dbus-launch gnome-session and replace the file, or simple just replace the file ? Thank you!
Created attachment 184338 [details] /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml This file was generated by completely reinstalling gnome from scratch while using gconf-2.24.0
(In reply to comment #23) > Just for clarification: it is necessary to recompile entire gnome and replace > the file, recompile entire gnome, start with dbus-launch gnome-session and > replace the file, or simple just replace the file ? Just replace the file. If you still see the settings-daemon error message you can avoid it by using dbus-launch. Try export GSM_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 before starting gnome-session to see some debugging messages. In my case I see the session manager try 10 times to spawn the settings-daemon before giving up. I modified the gnome-session code to try 1000 times but the settings daemon still never starts. When I use dbus-launch the daemon starts on the first try. I'm still working on the reason.
Thanks! It's working now.
I think this is an important clue. Without using dbus-launch I see this: ~ ps ax |grep dbus 2032 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 4761 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session 4965 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session 4966 tty1 S 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 0c51acf9753f9272eb482600458f1c7b --binary-syntax --close-stderr 4974 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 17 --print-pid 19 --session When I use dbus-launch I see only one dbus session and none with the --autolaunch flag. The dbus-launch man page says this happens when an app can't find DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS in it's environment -- and that's usually not normal. Any ideas why the settings-daemon would be unable to find the session address?
It's very strange... After the second reboot same problem. Anyway, I'm almost sure that I found the problem. I decided to rebuild gnome from scratch (emerge --jobs=3 --load-average=4 --keep-going gnome). At some point coreutils just... wait indefinitely. In build.log I found something about nanosleep. Following the bug 260459 I downgrade nvidia-drivers. No more problems after that, no mater how many times rebooted the computer or witch /etc/gconf/gconf.xml I use (mine or version attached to this bug). walt could you, please, confirm ?
Well, I do use the accused nvidia driver, but I tried switching to the 'nv' driver and saw no difference. Are you saying that changing video drivers fixed the settings-daemon startup bug? OTOH, just rebooting twice broke something so I'm still confused.
Yes, downgrading to nvidia-drivers-180.29 solved the problem for me. But, after I read your comment, I did the following test: I installed back nvidia-drivers-180.35 and switched to nv driver in xorg.conf. Unless manually remove nvidia drivers (rmmod nvidia) problem persisted, although nv driver was used. rmmod nvidia && /etc/init.d/xdm start solve everything (without xdm start, off course). Conclusion: for me, if nvidia module is in memory and it's version is 180.35 the problem is still here.
Solved! The experts in the dbus mailing list are adamant that the code in gnome-session that starts the dbus session is broken, and anyway it's the linux distro's job to make sure that the startup scripts guarantee a dbus-launch for *every* X session, gnome, kde, or anything else, because so many apps require dbus now. So yes, it's a bug in gnome-session but the proper solution for gentoo is to change the startup scripts so apps like gnome-session don't *need* to do it. That's the long-term plan for every distro, and that's from the experts themselves -- check the dbus mailing list for details. Meanwhile, the workaround for us is: If you use [xgk]dm then the XSESSION variable needs to be set to "Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf. If you use startx, I find that putting 'exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome' in .xinitrc works perfectly. I hope we haven't bored the devs to death. Gilles, are you still listening?
In my stabilization testing, this was soley related to the version of libxklavier. That's why I didn't stabilize 3.8. Unless libxklavier was interacting with dbus somehow, dbus is a red herring. I had the XSESSION setting set to gnome, and was using gdm.
It's the usual evil spirits at work then, because I just installed and configured gdm and everything works perfectly with libxklavier-3.8. In particular gnome-settings-daemon is running and I don't see the startup problem that started this bug report. I just checked to make sure that all the gsd keyboard-related plugins are enabled, and they are. Are you referring specifically to that popup dialog saying gsd restarted too many times? And libxklavier was the cause? (Just trying to make sure we're on the same page, is all.)
That's the one, yes. I have never seen this on my ~arch system (which had 3.8 all along) but it happened on 2 stable amd64 systems that were upgraded to 2.24 recently. Enough that I didn't stable 3.8 on amd64.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > For me downgrade libxklavier to 3.6 fix the problem > > > > Yes ! Me too ! :-) Thanks ! > Me three!
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > For me downgrade libxklavier to 3.6 fix the problem > > > > Yes ! Me too ! :-) Thanks ! > >Me three! Me four
I experienced this problem on 2 of 3 installations (all x86). A downgrade to libxklavier version 3.6 fixed the problem in both cases. The unaffected installation runs Xorg 1.5, I will upgrade one of the affected PCs later this day from 1.3 to 1.5 and report back if the Xorg version makes any difference.
I upgraded both installations to Xorg 1.5.3 and the problem disappeared on both machines. Xorg 1.5.3 stablizisation (see bug #251832)FTW :-)
Thanks, that's good to know. Just this morning a large group of gnome-related packages were marked stable on x86, including libxklavier-3.8 -- which broke my gnome-settings-daemon just like everybody else here :o) What irony... I'd say that libxklavier should be downgraded immediately to prevent an avalanche of new bug reports. Can anyone here do that?
(In reply to comment #6) > For me downgrade libxklavier to 3.6 fix the problem Yes, it's good solution for me too. Thanks.
Downgrading to libxklavier-3.6 on my bog-standard x86 system also fixed the constant crashes. Wish I had found this bug, oh, two hours ago. Sigh.
Ran into this nasty little critter this morning after upgrading to gnome-2.24 stable my x86 machine. Masking >=libxklavier-3.8 and re-emergeing libxklavier-3.6 also fixed the problem for me. Its interesting that I didn't run into this problem a week ago when upgrading gnome on my stable amd64 system as libxklavier-3.8 is still marked as unstable on that arch.
Could anyone upgrade "x11-misc/xkeyboard-config" to the latest from ~arch (1.5 ATM) and go back to libxklavier 3.8? Thanks
I am yet another happy user just having this fixed by temporary $ echo ">=x11-libs/libxklavier-3.8" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
(In reply to comment #43) > Could anyone upgrade "x11-misc/xkeyboard-config" to the latest from ~arch (1.5 > ATM) and go back to libxklavier 3.8? Sorry, that combination is still broken on my x86 machine :o(
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(In reply to comment #44) > I am yet another happy user just having this fixed by temporary > > $ echo ">=x11-libs/libxklavier-3.8" >> /etc/portage/package.mask So am I, after wasting the afternoon rebuilding gnome because I was afraid it was about to the "-mfpmath=sse" gcc option I added just before updating... The problem is with libxklavier 3.8... With version 3.6 everything works fine. The other workaround (dbus-launch) does not work for me.
Both of two solutions (with disabling keyboard plugin with gconftool and downgrading libxklavier to 3.6 solved the problem for me. Thanks a lot!
On x86 here. Upgraded to gnome 2.24 this am and hit this issue. Finally rolled libxklavier back to 3.6, and working without any issues...
(In reply to comment #36) > (In reply to comment #7) > > (In reply to comment #6) > > > For me downgrade libxklavier to 3.6 fix the problem > > > > > > > Yes ! Me too ! :-) Thanks ! > > > > >Me three! > > Me four > Me five
(In reply to comment #50) > Me five Let's *stop* this now. We've had enough confirmation already. Just quietly add yourself to CC if you don't have anything important to add. Now could anyone try what I suggested in comment #43 ? Thanks
(In reply to comment #43) > Could anyone upgrade "x11-misc/xkeyboard-config" to the latest from ~arch (1.5 > ATM) and go back to libxklavier 3.8? > After upgrading to current stable x86 this problem occured on my VMware Machine. Finding this thread I did _not_ downgrade libxklavier but instead emerged xkeyboard-config-1.5 from ~x86. This does _not_ solve the problem. The last lines of the output of /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon --no-daemon --debug keep saying: ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsModule 0x8412850 initialising ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Loading /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libbackground.so ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Registering GsdBackgroundPlugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Creating object of type GsdBackgroundPlugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: GsdBackgroundPlugin initializing ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Activating background plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Starting background manager ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsManager: emitting plugin-activated background ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Plugin background: active ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsModule 0x84128c8 initialising ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Loading /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libkeyboard.so ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Registering GsdKeyboardPlugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Creating object of type GsdKeyboardPlugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: GsdKeyboardPlugin initializing ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Activating keyboard plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:5267): DEBUG: Starting keyboard manager The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadClass, invalid event class'. (Details: serial 158 error_code 182 request_code 148 minor_code 6) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) [1237368807,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application
I tried comment #43 => Still the same issues here x11-misc/xkeyboard-config was upgraded to 1.5 libxklavier was upgraded to 3.8
libxklavier-3.8 causes the same problem even in gnome-2.22. It seems to me that it should be masked. Maybe a separate bug should be opened for it.
Just wanted to add my experience to this. I ran into the same issue with g-s-d but downgrading libxklavier and revdep-rebuilding didn't solve it for me. I run stable arch with the following exceptions: Portage 2.2 GCC 4.3.3 glibc 2.9 I have the exact same setup on my AMD64 and also the same problem there since several months. (Did 2.24 go stable there much earlier?) I assume glibc has something to do with this too...
@gnome, I couldn't find what piece is missing to get libxklavier 3.8 to work. I suggest we don't stabilize it. We can open a new which can dep on the xorg 1.5.3 stabilization bug. Cheers
(In reply to comment #55) > Just wanted to add my experience to this. I ran into the same issue with g-s-d > but downgrading libxklavier and revdep-rebuilding didn't solve it for me... See my comment #31 above. Starting gnome the wrong way can produce the same symptoms, which certainly had me confused for a long time.
Thanks walt, I never got around to test that since everyone quickly focused on libxklavier. exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome makes the error message go away on my AMD64 at least. I can't try it on my x86 atm but I'm sure it will work there too. Still, fact remains that downgrading libxklavier doesn't help when I use a newer gcc and glibc (I'm installing a fresh Gentoo in VMware to confirm this but it will take a few hours.) I got the feeling the problem is a little more complex then just libxklavier... /Morgan
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(In reply to comment #57) > See my comment #31 above. Starting gnome the wrong way can produce the same > symptoms, which certainly had me confused for a long time. I tried this but it didn't work for me. I check /etc/rc.conf and XSESSION is set to Gnome: $ grep XSESSION /etc/rc.conf # XSESSION is a new variable to control what window manager to start # value that XSESSION is set to. The support scripts are smart enough to # allthough it will work if the user export XSESSION in his .bash_profile, etc. # 2) even if ~/.xsession exists, if XSESSION can be resolved, it will XSESSION="Gnome" I use startx, though, so tried this .xinitrc file: $ cat ~/.xinitrc touch /home/mike/this-is-the-xinitrc exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome (the first line is just confirmation that .xinitrc was called). I still get issues with gnome-settings-daemon. Downgrading to libxklavier-3.6 "solves" the issue. My emerge --info: $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo-r3-0 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r3-0-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T7200_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.gg3.net/ ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO http://gentoo.channelx.biz/ http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Gentoo/ ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode evo exif fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipod ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libnotify mad mbox midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
With a recent gnome[-light]-2.24 upgrade I was seeing gnome-settings-daemon starting up fine, but the keyboard properties specifically not taking effect, as primarily evidenced by my chosen Compose key ("Menu") not having effect. This was with libxklavier-3.8. Downgrading to libxklavier-3.6 (and rev-building gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.1-r1) results in a working gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-keyboard-properties (and compose key, &c.) Trying (libxklavier-3.8, xkeyboard-config-1.5, gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.1-r1) results in an unstartable gnome-settings-daemon.
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(In reply to comment #6) > For me downgrade libxklavier to 3.6 fix the problem > It worked for me too! Thanks! :)
It looks like there are actually two different bugs here with the same effect. 1. Something related to dbus and startup order. 2. BadClass error that goes away when downgrading libxklavier.
I'm running an x86/stable system. Yesterday, when running an emerge -avuD world, I ran into the problem described here. The fix described in comment 6, downgrading to libxklavier-3.6 (3.8 was installed), resolved it for me. Unfortunate that this problem hits stable users like me, although the problem is known since some time.
(In reply to comment #63) > (In reply to comment #6) > > For me downgrade libxklavier to 3.6 fix the problem > > > > It worked for me too! > Thanks! :) > me too! thanks!
Working! What I do: 1. emerge -av =x11-libs/libxklavier-3.6 2. USE="libnotify" emerge -av gnome-settings-daemon 3. delete all gnome folders from ~/* 4. set XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf 5. logout 6. login 7. startx Everything works fine ! Info: triss ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2400_@_1.83GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.vectranet.pl/gentoo/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://gentoo.po.opole.pl" LC_ALL="pl_PL.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pl en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi additions alsa apache2 automount avahi bash-completion big-tables bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr encode extramodules ffmpeg firefox flac ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv isdnlog java jpeg laptop mdnsresponder-compat midi mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdo perl pl png powerkadu pppd pulseaudio python qt3 qt4 readline reflection sdl session smp spl sql sqlite ssl svg sysfs tcpd truetype unicode userlocales vim-syntax vorbis x86 xcomposite xml xorg xosd xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
x11-misc/xkeyboard-config was upgraded to 1.5 libxklavier was upgraded to 3.8 AND gnome worked for me BUT only after I downgraded gnome-base/librsvg to 2.22.3
Sorry. I meant downgrading gnome-base/librsvg-2.22.3 to gnome-base/librsvg-2.22.2
(In reply to comment #69) > Sorry. I meant downgrading gnome-base/librsvg-2.22.3 to > gnome-base/librsvg-2.22.2 > I'm not sure of the 'official' workaround, but I got bit too. Things I did: emerge =gnome-base/librsvg-2.22.2 emerge =x11-libs/libxklavier-3.6 emerge -av gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon cat .xinitrc exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome Thanks folks.
*** Bug 262871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Gilles and I found something in the ChangeLog which could make a big difference. Could anyone update inputproto to 1.5, libXi to 1.2.1 and rebuild gtk and gnome-settings-daemon ? Using libxklavier 3.8 of course. Thanks
Created attachment 186448 [details] crashlog created by gnome when started with inputproto-1.50, libXi-1.2.1 and libxklavier-3.8 (I'm one of those, where the problem was solved by just downgrading libxklavier to 3.6. Before downgrading it, the only problems where themes not working and the message about gnome-settings-daemon failing to start. No crashes, as far as I remember.) > Could anyone update inputproto to 1.5, libXi to 1.2.1 and rebuild gtk and > gnome-settings-daemon ? > > Using libxklavier 3.8 of course. Just tried this, and gnome crashed when starting and the screen returned to gdm (An alert window was visible for a short moment, but without any text in it). I tried to log in again, and apparently got some further, the bug report dialog appeared. After choosing a filename for the report (attached, dunno if it's useful), that gnome session vanished, too and gdm reappeared. Here's the order in which I emerged those packages: Fri Mar 27 16:31:43 2009 >>> x11-libs/libxklavier-3.8 Fri Mar 27 16:33:36 2009 >>> x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.0 Fri Mar 27 16:34:13 2009 >>> x11-libs/libXi-1.2.1 Fri Mar 27 16:47:57 2009 >>> x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.7-r2 Fri Mar 27 16:51:12 2009 >>> gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.1-r1 So I re-downgraded libxklavier, inputproto and libXi and everything seems to be fine again, even without rebuilding gtk+ or gnome-settings-daemon: Fri Mar 27 17:13:15 2009 >>> x11-libs/libxklavier-3.6 Fri Mar 27 17:13:20 2009 >>> x11-proto/inputproto-1.4.2.1 Fri Mar 27 17:13:26 2009 >>> x11-libs/libXi-1.1.3
I also have had this problem when I: startx I tried pretty much everything that was suggested and the only thing that worked for me was: emerge -av =libxklavier-3.6 I'm very new to Linux and it has taken me a week to finally figure out how to fix this problem. These kinds of difficulties make it hard for me to continue using Gentoo. I still have to figure out why I get errors when I: emerge ati-drivers
(In reply to comment #72) > Could anyone update inputproto to 1.5, libXi to 1.2.1 and rebuild gtk and > gnome-settings-daemon ? Using libxklavier 3.8 of course. Sorry to report that I still see the same settings-daemon error dialog :-( Thanks, though, for working on it.
Ok, I've dropped all the stable keywords from libxklavier 3.6. Since I really don't want any of us to spend more time chasing this bug, Gilles and I have agreed to stabilize 3.8 once xorg-server 1.5.3 goes stable. We'll open a separate bug for that. Thanks to all for your input and sorry for the inconvenience.
> Ok, I've dropped all the stable keywords from libxklavier 3.6. That should read 3.8, I guess. 3.6 is the version which seems to perform ok with other currently stable packages.
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