Gnome 2.16 upgrade failed (yeah, I read /usr/src/UPDATING)

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 16:59 -0300, Rainer Alves wrote:
> Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 22:05 -0300, Rainer Alves wrote:
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> >> - Every single icon in mail/evolution is unavailable (including toolbar 
> >> icons, preference dialog icons and interface icons). No error is printed 
> >> during startup, it simply replaces all those icons with a red cross.
> >> 
> >> I could probably report other errors, but I've only stumbled across 
> >> specific gnome applications errors since I'm using xfce4 as my desktop 
> >> environment (instead of gnome-panel/metacity).
> >> 
> > 
> > Did you figure this out?  I can't, evolution icons worked fine with
> > xfce4, gnome 2.14 and evolution 2.6.x.   Every time I try to start 
> > /usr/local/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon, I get this error :
> > 
> > "You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting"
> > 
> > ...probably an xfce4 xseetings manager is running.  I just don't 
> > understand how it all worked before the upgrade.  
> > 
> > Just curious if you had any luck.
> 
> All my Evolution icons returned to normal after upgrading to 2.8.1.1.
> In the meantime I've also reinstalled all my icon-related ports: 
> 'misc/gnome-icon-theme' and 'x11-themes/gnome-icons-crystal', so I'm not 
> exactly sure which of these solved the issue.
> By the way, I've never had gnome-settings-daemon running. Not before the 
> upgrade, not ever.
> 

  I didn't think I did either.  I installed 2.8.1.1 and it stopped my
crashing problem.  I will try the icon ports.  

                 Thanks.

> - Rainer
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Scott T. Hildreth <shild at sbcglobal.net>