gnome settings daemon failing to start

[Andrew Thomson]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 22:38, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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

Probably doesn't help much, but running the gnome-settings-daemon once
everything has started results in a working gnome-settings-daemon!!

Restarted X again but still doesn't want to start on startup!

ajt.