gnome settings daemon failing to start

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 03:52, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After my upgrade to 2.6, everything went smoothly except for when I
> startup, I get a little dialogue complaining that the "gnome settings
> daemon" could not be started and thefore I get dodgy icons on the
> desktop.
> 
> I have created a new user and tried starting gnome and it all comes up
> perfectly. So I assume I have something funny lying around in one of the
> gnome . directories.
> 
> I have tried removing some obvious ones but no luck yet...
> 
> .esd_auth
> .gconf
> .gconfd
> .gnome
> .gnome2
> .gnome2_private
> .metacity
> .nautilus
> 
> Any clues on what's causing this problem?

You should try launching /usr/X11R6/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon by
hand to see exactly why it's not coming up.

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ajt.
> 
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