On my old PIII, I've got X configured for a few different users. It's been working fine up untill today. And just this afternoon, someone, who uses gnome, tried to log on, and the gnome-settings-daemon failed. It just pops up with a window that says that when gnome tries to start. The program tries to restart itself again and again but it doesn't help anything. I've tried reinstalling a few packages, but it hasn't helped so far. What package is gnome-settings-daemon in? What do I need to reinstall, or what do I need to tweak to fix this?

-Thanks in advance.

Hi slackwarefan,

I can't help much, 'cause I use KDE, but had some kind of similar problem yesterday. If this occurs to just one user, you should perhaps check permissions and ownerships of his home directory - I had managed anyhow to pass the ownership of my home dir to root and therefore hat no writing possibilites to my own home dir - which resulted in KDE refusing to start.

Maybe I could help a little.

Greetings,

Seppel

check you $HOME/.gnome2 folders.. this usually indicates the control-center isn't able to do it's startup routine.

If you want to have some more informations when that
kind of problem arise, here how I do:

In root, init 3
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add in the section:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DisableVidModeExtension" "false"
Option "DontZoom" "false"
Option "DisableModInDev" "false"
Option "HandleSpecialKeys" "Always"
EndSection

This will give you the function to return to a text console.

Log as a normal user in console 1 ( the one when you press
<ALT><F1> )
cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome ~/.xinitrc
startx

When the X start and when you see some graphics appear,
go to the console 1 ( <CTRL><ALT><F1> )

Check for the debug messages...

Richard

PS: Check to see if you have a process gnome-session running
even if the X is not active. ( init 3 )