Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 158244
There was an error starting the GONME Settings Daemon
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:06 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: After rebooting the machine, every user login gets the folloing error: ***** 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. GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. ***** which is followed by 4 more errors related to GNOME applets: ***** The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID: GNOME_xxxApplet" unknown CORBA exception id IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0 ***** where xxx is Pager, TaskList, SystemTray, and Clock. This results in several items not being available for utilization by users -- including root. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.2.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 2. Login and see that everything is fine 3. Reboot 4. Login and see that GNOME Settings Daemon cannot start Actual Results: See description Expected Results: The GNOME desktop starts, the system tray has a clock, workspace control is available, No errors are reported that the GNOME Settings Daemon cannot start, etc... Additional info: Computer Model: HP Compaq dc7100 CMT Processor: Intel Pentium 4 with Hyper-Therading @ 3.2-GHz BIOS: HP 786C1 v01.05, 6/16/2004 RAM: 1024.50-MB Chipset: Intel 915 G chipset Hard Disk Controller: 40 - 160-GN, 7200-rpm Serial ATA/100 Hard Drive: 80-GB SATA @ 7200-rpm (Western Digital) Network Card: Broadcom NetExtreme Gigabit Ethernet Graphics Card: nVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT with 128-MB RAM
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