Gnome 2.6 error
 

Hey

I did the swaret upgrade to current today which included gnome 2.6. All went well apparently but when I log into gnome I get the following error:

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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.

The last error message was:

Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

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I restarted the computer but the same error comes back again.

Anyone know whats causing this or how I fix it? Apart from themes and icons and a weird font size everything works ok.

thanks

nevermind

removed gnome completely and did a fresh install of gnome 2.6 using swaret and its all good now.

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. What did you removed exactly ?

By the way, I'm having another trouble. After upgrading to gnome 2.6 and entering XFree it does nothing. I must do a telinit 3 from another tty and then login as my user and type "startx". Did you upgrades XFree as well as Gnome ?

I must say that I was using xfce instead of gnome.

Thanks in advance.

SnOp

Just trying to stall a headache here, but have to ask. Why is it necessary to remove the "old" gnome prior to updating to the "new" gnome? Is it necessary, or just "good practice"? I will be waiting on a reply before I venture forth into the new gnome 2.6.1.1

Thanks for your insights!

justaguy

I too had mysterious things go wrong (like nautilus ownly diplaying
a generic icon for all files & folders) which changed through
uninstalling an re-installing. Now, it is mostly working but neither
ggv nor gpdf work. ggv does not even open or display any error
messages. gpdf opens a window but can not open a file.

Here are some gpdf error messages:

(gpdf:13554): Bonobo-WARNING **: Activation exception 'Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_PDF_Control''

(gpdf:13554): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: file bonobo-widget.c: line 325 (bonobo_widget_get_control_frame): assertion `BONOBO_IS_WIDGET (bonobo_widget)' failed

(gpdf:13554): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: file bonobo-control-frame.c: line 571 (bonobo_control_frame_set_autoactivate): assertion `BONOBO_IS_CONTROL_FRAME (frame)' failed

Also, gedit runs but spits out these gems:

(gedit:14747): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed

And yes, I do have the latest gdk-pixbuf package installed.

So I don't know what the point of installing Gnome 2.6 was. It does not look
much different, except for Nautilus opening every folder in a new window. And
it does not work as well as Gnome 2.4. Consider it beta.

As has been pointed out on a previous thread. There are many new packages that apparently swaret fails to get. Look at the change log and make sure you have all and there were several packages that do need to be removed which of course swaret can not do. ANother reason to manage your own system.

Did I say anything about using swaret?

I upgraded manually according to the changelog.

Subgenius- And the person that started the thread did use swaret, it was to him that I was responding.
I would suggest you start a new thread since your problem may be unrelated to the problem being discussed in this thread.
FWIW- I am running current and gpdf seems to work fine.

err well I fixed my problem using swaret.

At first I did swaret --upgrade to current

That gave me the error in gnome 2.6. Everything else was fine.

So then I did swaret --remove gnome

It completely removed my gnome installation

Then I did swaret --install gnome

It installed gnome 2.6 and everything is sweet.

So while swaret may have screwed up with the initial upgrade it resolved all my problems with a remove and a fresh install.


<-------------oh and hnad is huntz. I got two logins for some stupid reason. :p

Hi,

I managed to make everything work. When first I downloaded all the "gnome" folder from slackware current and tried upgradepkg *.tgz && installpkg *.tgz gnome failed (gdm didn't work also so I even had to manually go to runlevel 3 and type startx).

Then I uninistalled all things starting by gnome (also gconf an some other packages) AND downloaded XFree 4.4 (I think this may be related to those gdk problems with gedit, I had them too).

Then when to XFree and typed upgradepkg *.tgz && installpkg *.tgz. The same with the gnome folder.

After that... gdm refused too work yet (but gnome started nicely when typing startx). Then I executed xwmconfig and also gdm-config. This made gdm to work and now everything seems to work fine.

I hope this story can help someone.

Bye.

SnOp