Preferences failures with GNOME 2.26.1

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:47:40AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 17:21 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just upgraded from 2.26 to 2.26.1, and I'm finding that my personal
> > UI preferences are not recognised anymore. When I try to run
> > "gnome-mouse-properties", it comes back with a dialog box stating:
> > 
> > "Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
> >  Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not
> >  take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME
> >  (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with
> >  the GNOME settings manager."
> > 
> > However, a quick "ps ax" reveals a recently started
> > gnome-settings-daemon. Keyboard settings are similarly affected.
> 
> Do you have a custom pulseaudio configuration?

Nope. Just what is installed out of ports. I do notice that the
process hangs around even after I logout.

Cheers.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>                    Once is dumb luck.
                                                 Twice is coincidence.
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