Does anyone know what this means?

mrchaos · 03-15-2005, 04:08 PM

Does anyone know what this means?

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.

mdarby · 03-15-2005, 04:35 PM

hell, it sounds like even the erroring program doesn't know what happened

tormented_one · 03-15-2005, 06:08 PM

Gnome in slackware is incomplete. I believe pat is dropping it. Id suggest updating to atleast gnome 2.8. There are some links to the packages on here somewhere. Or change to red hat (as KDE is broke in it though).

Franklin · 03-15-2005, 08:08 PM

There's a bug with gstreamer that crashes gnome-settings-daemon as root.
Renaming a file as follows is rumored to fix the issue.

Code:

su -
cd /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/
mv libgstxine.so libgstxine.soXXX

This does not happen as a normal user. Don't run as root.

I can also recommend the LiNuCe gnome 2.8.3+ packages. They work nicely with 2.4.29.

HTH

noxious · 03-15-2005, 09:21 PM

It works!

mrchaos · 03-16-2005, 12:16 AM

I mounted two of my windows partitions as devices in linux. This is great, and I can read the disks from root. However, if I'm not root, I can't access these devices (error is "you don't have the permission") and when I try to change the permissions in root, it says I can't b/c the disks are read-only. Anyone got a fix?

titopoquito · 03-16-2005, 01:09 AM

You can't set the permission of single directories and files on mounted windows partitions. But you can set general permissions when mounting the partition. Look in your /etc/fstab and search in the fstab-manpage or here on linuxquestionslorg for the parameters "rw", "users", "user", "gid" and "umask". You will find many examples here.

titopoquito

Damon Spector · 04-21-2005, 03:36 PM

just letting people know that I got the same error message as mrchaos in the first post then I tried Franklin's solution and it worked!

gmgartner · 04-23-2005, 01:32 PM

I ran the dropline installer and Dropline Gnome, at least works fine.