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Error Gnome settings deamon

Asked by Dines683

Occasionally i get this message when i have logged on

Error GNOME settings Deamon.....

My computer works fine, except for the theme, it is not critical but still a bit anoying

when i check my xsessions-error i get the following

knudsen83@ubuntu:~$ more .xsession-errors

(process:7664): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setg
id.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:

    http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

Refusing to initialize GTK+.

(process:7668): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setg
id.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:

    http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

Refusing to initialize GTK+.
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/ubuntu:/tmp/.ICE-unix/7661
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/knudsen83/.metac
ity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file '/home/knudsen83/.metacity/session
s/default0.ms': No such file or directory
** Message: Not starting remote desktop server
libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/d
bus-D7XXxqB1fJ: Connection refused
Initializing nautilus-image-converter extension
Initializing gnome-mount extension
libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/d
bus-D7XXxqB1fJ: Connection refused
system-config-printer-applet: unable to initialize pynotify
system-config-printer-applet: failed to connect to session D-Bus
  PID TTY TIME CMD

Does anyone know how to deal with this??

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Dines683 (dines683) said : 		#1

I tried this link

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=395456

but i still get Error Gnome settings deamon from time to time.

further this is my /var/log/gdm/:0.log

knudsen83@ubuntu:~$ more /var/log/gdm/:0.log

X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8.3)
Current Operating System: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-14-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Dec 18
 10:01:34 UTC 2007 i686
Build Date: 18 January 2008
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 27 20:44:19 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module already built-in
Atom 4, CARD32 4, unsigned long 4
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Synaptics DeviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called.
Synaptics DeviceOn called

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Dines683 (dines683) said : 		#2

Does anyone know what to do??

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Dines683 (dines683) said : 		#3

The error message i get is

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The last error message was:

Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-D7XXxqB1fJ: Connection refused

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

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Robert Di Gioia (digioiar) said : 		#4

Hi

Is the gnome-settings-daemon running? to find out, type the following command in a terminal (applications->accessories->terminal)

ps -ef|grep settings

Also, what are the permissions on your /tmp directory? the command to find out in a terminal is

ls -ld /tmp

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Dines683 (dines683) said : 		#5

This is what i got after the error message:

knudsen83@ubuntu:~$ ps -ef|grep settings
1000 6535 6517 0 14:42 pts/0 00:00:00 grep settings

------

knudsen83@ubuntu:~$ ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 2008-01-29 14:41 /tmp

-----

I was able to start the gnome-setting-deamon manually
But i got the following message
knudsen83@ubuntu:~$ gnome-settings-daemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:6538): WARNING **: Unable to connect to dbus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-irqHGVih36: Connection refused

(gnome-settings-daemon:6538): GnomeKbdIndicator-WARNING **: Unable to connect to dbus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-irqHGVih36: Connection refused

(gnome-settings-daemon:6538): GnomeKbdIndicator-WARNING **: Not connected to dbus, will not register the object

** (gnome-screensaver:6545): WARNING **: failed to register with the message bus
xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 220 overrides entry on line 150
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 226 overrides entry on line 191
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 232 overrides entry on line 151
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 238 overrides entry on line 192

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Dines683 (dines683) said : 		#6

correction

i was able to manualle start the gnome -setting-deamon but it crashed after 2min

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Best Robert Di Gioia (digioiar) said : 		#7

Hi

I found this post in the forums, sounds like it may have a solution for you. Look at post #15

http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587410&page=2

good luck

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Dines683 (dines683) said : 		#8

Thanks Robert apparently it has solved my problem....

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Dines683 (dines683) said : 		#9

Thanks Robert Di Gioia, that solved my question.