Gnome 2.3 upgrade

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 02:09, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 17:35, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 23:51, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I have upgraded to Gnome 2.3 using marcusmerge and I am getting the 
> > > following error while loggin in.  Everything seems to be working fine 
> > > anyway (well, except evolution 1.3.2 is spinning 100% cpu on the splash 
> > > screen).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > "There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
> > > Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not 
> > > work correctly.
> > > The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
> > > The last error message was:
> > > Failed to read from child process: Operation not supported by device
> > > GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log 
> > > in."
> > 
> > How are you starting GNOME (gdm, startx, etc.)?
> 
> startx with gnome-session in my .xinitrc
> 
> I have also created a new user with an empty home dir for testing.
> 
> >   Do you have any errors in ~/.xsession-errors or on the console?
> 
> Only this on the console:
> 
> "** (gnome-panel:694): WARNING **: Unable to load panel stock icon 'go'"
> 
> >   Did you have GNOME 2.2 working previously?
> 
> Yep, worked fine.
> 
> >   Have you tried moving ~/.gnome2/session out of the way, then starting GNOME?
> 
> As above, I created a new user with an empty homedir, same error
> message.

Have you tried running gnome-settings-daemon by hand from a
gnome-terminal?  That output might prove useful.

You might also try doing ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf as root.  This
shouldn't be necessary as there are other -CURRENT users testing GNOME
2.3, and none of them have complained yet.  But you never know.

Oh, also, what are the perms on /tmp?

Joe

> 
> 
> Andy
> 
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