Gnome-setting-deamon 2.24 don't start when the laptop is plugged, but start when on battery. Reproducible: Always emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2050_@_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" #ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ #ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ #ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/ # http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fr" 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/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/layman/roslin /usr/local/portage/layman/gnome" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi aiglx alsa asf battery berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr encode esd exif ffmpeg fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv isdnlog java javascript jpeg kdeenablefinal lirc mad midi mono mp3 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia opengl openmp pam pcre pda perl pic pmu png pppd qt readline reflection reiserfs session smp spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb wifi win32codecs x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner 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" CAMERAS="ptp2 canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse wacom evdev joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
do you have any interesting information in ~/.xsession-errors. Did you try to run it by hand and see if it crashed ? Are you using gnome-session 2.22 or 2.24 ?
looks like there is a problem in gnome-session 2.24 starting gnome-settings-daemon asynchrously which results from time to time in g-s-d being started to late or even not at all (or is it segfaulting). Although if you don't provide us more information this bug is not going anywhere.
it *may* be possible that i had a related issue, which was that when starting gdm, it would error with some message saying that "gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status code 256". then i downgraded to gdm 2.22 though, which seems to have solved the issue (but left me with a system where sessions didn't get restored, although that got fixed by downgrading gnome-session to 2.22 too :P (dunno if it's related)). and now i'm simply using kdm. anyway, gconf-sanity-check-2 failed in gdm 2.24.
*** Bug 246158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A similar problem was also reported in mandriva's bugzilla: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43783 Maybe this could be an upstream problem :-/
I guess my problem was the same, but it fails always. Anyway patch mentioned in #246170 (http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/dl/gnome-session/2.22.3-2/02_gsd-spawn.patch) solves problem here.
i have this problem too, re-emerging the gnome-settings-daemon doesnt solve this problems. and i hate to ruse previous version.
Created attachment 171545 [details] .xsession-errors I haven't tried any patch yet. Running "killall gnome-settings-daemon && /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon" after being logged in successively start gnome settings-daemon. I've attached my .xsession-errors. Not sure there is anything relevant in it.
ok, with time the bug is not always reproductible. sometimes gnome-settings-deamon don't start, somtimes it does. a solution is to launch one or twice the appearance application. xsession-errors do not report anythings, and trying to run gnome-settings-deamon manually do not work. I will try the patch
On my system (dual-core amd64) it doesn't seem random - gnome-settings-daemon fails every time!
+*gnome-session-2.22.3-r1 (13 Nov 2008) + + 13 Nov 2008; <chainsaw@gentoo.org> + +files/gnome-session-2.22.3-gsd-spawn.patch, + +gnome-session-2.22.3-r1.ebuild: + Debian patch identified by Marcin Kurek <morgoth6@gmail.com> resolves + intermittent gnome-session-manager failures on login (only SMP systems + appear to be affected). First step towards closing bug #239293.
+ 13 Nov 2008; <chainsaw@gentoo.org> gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.0.ebuild: + Add an explicit dependency on the fixed gnome-session that spawns instead + of using D-Bus. This resolves the intermittent start failures on SMP + systems, reported by Ray Ishido <ray.ishido@gmail.com> in bug #239293. And this *very* annoying bug is now fixed. A big thank you to all reporters on this bug :)
Seems to work. Thanks.
This bug is marked as resolved, but I'm still seeing this issue with gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.1. It's possible it's not the same issue, but the error is identical, and the system it's occurring on is SMP.
(In reply to comment #14) > This bug is marked as resolved, but I'm still seeing this issue with > gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.1. It's possible it's not the same issue, but the > error is identical, and the system it's occurring on is SMP. > I'm also still experiencing this issue with gnome-settings-daemon-2.24.1 on two pc's with SMP.
Open a new bug guys, this will just confuse the issue.
(In reply to comment #16) > Open a new bug guys, this will just confuse the issue. Has a new bug been opened for this? I'm still seeing it a month later.
(In reply to comment #17) > (In reply to comment #16) > > Open a new bug guys, this will just confuse the issue. > > Has a new bug been opened for this? I'm still seeing it a month later. There is bug #256016. Maybe it applies to you.