String it with debug output I get this: $ /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon --debug --no-daemon ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Successfully connected to D-Bus ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Starting settings manager ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading settings plugins from dir: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/ ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xrandr.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='XRandR' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xrandr.gnome-settings-plugin' location='xrandr' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Keyboard' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin' location='keyboard' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/a11y-keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Accessibility Keyboard' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/a11y-keyboard.gnome-settings-plugin' location='a11y-keyboard' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/clipboard.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Clipboard' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/clipboard.gnome-settings-plugin' location='clipboard' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/background.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Background' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/background.gnome-settings-plugin' location='background' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xsettings.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='X Settings' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xsettings.gnome-settings-plugin' location='xsettings' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/keybindings.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Keybindings' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/keybindings.gnome-settings-plugin' location='keybindings' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/typing-break.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Typing Break' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/typing-break.gnome-settings-plugin' location='typing-break' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/sound.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Sound' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/sound.gnome-settings-plugin' location='sound' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/mouse.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Mouse' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/mouse.gnome-settings-plugin' location='mouse' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/housekeeping.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Housekeeping' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/housekeeping.gnome-settings-plugin' location='housekeeping' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/media-keys.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Media keys' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/media-keys.gnome-settings-plugin' location='media-keys' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/font.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='Font' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/font.gnome-settings-plugin' location='font' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading plugin: /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xrdb.gnome-settings-plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsPluginInfo: name='X Resource Database' file='/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/xrdb.gnome-settings-plugin' location='xrdb' ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsModule 0x65aad0 initialising ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Loading /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libxrandr.so ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Registering GsdXrandrPlugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Creating object of type GsdXrandrPlugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: GsdXrandrPlugin initializing ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Activating xrandr plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:994): DEBUG: Starting xrandr manager (gnome-settings-daemon:994): libnotify-WARNING **: you must call notify_init() before showing ** libnotify:ERROR:notification.c:514:notify_notification_show: code should not be reached Aborted
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USE="libnotify (multilib) policykit -debug -pulseaudio -smartcard"
This might be related to x11-libs/libnotify-0.7.1
Probably a libnotify-0.7.1 problem as it works fine for me with current stable :-/
Confirmed, down grading fixes it.
Ionut, the ArchLinux GNOME maintainer told me about the patch that they use to fix this problem: http://pkgbuild.com/~ioni/add_notify_init.patch That should fix the problem, pacho could you commit it?
Created attachment 266273 [details, diff] The other plugins already have this The same patch as that URL.
+*gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r1 (17 Mar 2011) + + 17 Mar 2011; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> + +gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r1.ebuild, + +files/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-libnotify-init.patch: + Fix runtime problems with libnotify-0.7 (bug #358535 by Justin Lecher and + patch by Ionut), use debian patch for restoring gst volume control as it + fixes volume popup problems (bug #327609 by Morse). +
