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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: Every time I log in, I get an error dialog which says: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. ... the last message was: Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. This happens on several systems I have installed RH 8.0 on. /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 9 is running relevant entries from /var/log/messages after logging in as root (I see the warning when logging in as a user too): Oct 9 12:34:32 trane gdm(pam_unix)[879]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Oct 9 12:34:33 trane gconfd (root-1265): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 1265 user 'root' Oct 9 12:34:33 trane gconfd (root-1265): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Oct 9 12:34:33 trane gconfd (root-1265): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Oct 9 12:34:33 trane gconfd (root-1265): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in using a gnome session. 2. Error dialog pops up. 3. Additional info:
While trying to fix another error, this one magically seems to have been fixed. My install was suddenly missing control-center (which I noticed when the "Change desktop background" stopped functioning. Installing control-center, xscreensaver, and fortune-mod solved this particular problem too. Why control-center suddenly disappeared is another thing ...
I have the same problem, however the above stated programs are installed on my system (see rpm output below). Any other suggestions as to how to fix the problem? gwh@yma: ~ <343> rpm -q control-center control-center-1.4.0.5-10.ximian.2 gwh@yma: ~ <344> rpm -q xscreensaver xscreensaver-4.05-6 gwh@yma: ~ <345> rpm -q fortune-mod fortune-mod-1.0-24 gwh@traptek.com
You have an old Ximian control-center, not the 8.0 control-center. See the release notes comments about how to successfully upgrade a system with Ximian installed. You're "on your own" to some extent there but the release notes do tell you how to make it work. It looks like the problem here is not with gnome, so closing bug. If you narrow down how control-center got uninstalled, maybe file a bug against the relevant package.