Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 187352
gnome-settings-daemon cannot start (shows an error and exits)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:28 EST
Description of problem: gnome-settings-daemon cannot start (shows an error message and exits) (see attachment) On a 32bit system it works ok. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpmquery control-center control-center-2.14.0-1 How reproducible: Always. Tried with my account and a new account, in fail safe gnome but the error persists. Steps to Reproduce: Not sure how this problem came to be but I assume : After upgrading to FC5 from FC4 it worked ok till : 1. While trying to remove accessibility packages with pirut I accidently removed control-center and gnome-session. 2. From KDE I reinstalled them 3. In gnome the gnome-settings-daemon error message showed and my font and icon settings where ignored. 4. did a groupinstall "GNOME... " but didn't help 5. Removed and reinstalled control-center and libxklavier but it didn't help. 6. Set the XKB information manually in xorg.conf didn't help but I could write in greek. Actual results: See attached error message (from fail safe gnome in a clean account ) Expected results: not this error. Additional info: If I try to start gnome-settings-daemon from the command line (not sure if this is how is supposed to run ) it fails with : /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=25 The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'. (Details: serial 2671 error_code 2 request_code 116 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) [1143719502,000,xklavier.c:XklStartListen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application
Created attachment 127049 [details] gnome-settings-daemon error message
Ok it has nothing to do with the reinstallation of the packages. it is the evdev driver for my mx510 mouse. When I use it I gnome-settings-daemon cannot start. When I use the mouse driver in xorg.conf it works ok (except my buttons :() evdev config, gnome-settings-daemon does not work : Section "InputDevice" Identifier "MX500" Driver "evdev" Option "Dev Phys" "usb-0000:00:02.0-1/input0" Option "Dev Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" EndSection mouse config gnome-settings-daemon works : Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Buttons" "10" Option "ZAxisMapping" "9 10" Option "Resolution" "800" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection
It will be probably be fixed upstream : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323724 Will try the patch.
The patch worked ok so does the new control-center-2.14.1-1.fc5.2.