51669 – On gnome 2.6 startup "Gnome Session Deamon could not start. Things like themes, backgrounds and sounds might not work."

Bug 51669 - On gnome 2.6 startup "Gnome Session Deamon could not start. Things like themes, backgrounds and sounds might not work."

Summary: On gnome 2.6 startup "Gnome Session Deamon could not start. Things like theme...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team

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Reported:	2004-05-21 09:34 UTC by Peter Gracar
Modified:	2004-07-14 00:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Peter Gracar 2004-05-21 09:34:16 UTC

Starting up gnome 2.6 causes the "Gnome Session Deamon could not start. Things like themes, backgrounds and sounds might not work." error to appear every time. There are no themes (icons) after the error. Going into "themes" however fixes the issue until the next login.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start up gnome 2.6
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Themes don't work

Expected Results:  
Themes should work

Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.itdnet.net/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd foomaticdb
gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx
motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python
qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex
truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 Christian Strauf 2004-05-24 04:59:57 UTC

I can confirm this bug. I experience the exact same behaviour.

Christian

Comment 2 Roy Thompson 2004-05-24 10:18:46 UTC

I can confirm that this happens for me too.
Although the wording of the error message is "Gnome Settings Deamon could not start".

Roy

Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-13 15:38:04 UTC

dunno this should be auto started by your session ... does this happen for new users too ?

Comment 4 Peter Gracar 2004-07-14 00:52:10 UTC

Killing the session, reemerging all the theme engines and dependancies and relloging in and out fixed the issue.