gnome-settings-manager daemon quitting unexpectedly.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 08:56, Joseph Peterson wrote:
> Hmm.. Hadn't thought of that, I figured I couldn't run gnome-session
> or metacity because a windowmanager was already running, but I didn't
> think of the other apps.
> 
> Okay, not much help.. gnome-terminal works fine (which I knew
> already).. I tried running gnome-panel from a gnome-terminal window
> and it does the same thing, comes up and says 'the application
> "gnome-panel" has quit unexpectedly' and gives me the option to
> restart, close and inform developers.  I've tried to inform
> developers, but it tells me that bug-buddy needs to be updated, and
> either way (update or no) bug-buddy then quits unexpectedly.
> I see nothing in the gnome-terminal window, but when I go back to the
> console where I started x from, I see the following:
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmenu.c: line 474 (gtk_menu_popup): assertion 'menu !=
> 
> Also, if I tell gnome-panel to restart, I get the following in my
> gnome-terminal window, just before another requester pops up telling
> me gnome-panel is already running (well, might be but its not showing
> up anywhere)
> (gnome-panel:2437): Gtk-WARNING **: Ignoring the separator setting
> 
> I get the same behavior with nautilus.

Then you'll need to rebuild everything with debugging symbols, and run
the applications in gdb.  When they crash, use the command "bt full" to
get a full backtrace.  More details can be found at:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html#q3

Joe

> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> -joe
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:38:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke
> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 10:59, Joseph Peterson wrote:
> > > The only thing I get in the console is;
> > > f000:20d1: 01 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE!
> > > but I get that no matter what windowmanager I use, and Fluxbox works
> > > fine. its just if I start gnome-session from .xinitrc (and yes, I use
> > > startx rather than gdm for X startup)
> > > I'd use gdm, but there are times that I don't need to go into X if I
> > > just want to ssh somewhere and check pine or something, plus I need to
> > > log in and get networking started before X starts (or prefer to at
> > > least)
> > 
> > Then from Fluxbox, try running GNOME applications directly from the
> > command line, and look for errors.  You can do this with Nautilus,
> > gnome-panel, etc.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > -joe
> > >
> > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:13:58 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke
> > > <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 23:44, Joseph Peterson wrote:
> > > > > Is that portupgrade -fr or portupgrade -fR ?
> > > > > I have already done a portupgrade -fR gnome2
> > > > > I don't see a ~/.xsession-errors
> > > >
> > > > If you don't start GNOME from GDM, then there will not be a
> > > > ~/.xsession-errors.  In that case, just look on the console.  Running
> > > > portupgrade -Rf gnome2 will only get ports in the GNOME desktop.  While
> > > > this should be sufficient, you may miss ports that something like
> > > > portupgrade -rf pkgconfig or portupgrade -rf glib-2\* will catch.
> > > >
> > > > That said, without anymore details, it is impossible to know exactly
> > > > what will fix your problems.
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > -joe
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:45:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke
> > > > > <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:12, Joseph Peterson wrote:
> > > > > > > A little over a week ago I updated something and gnome stopped
> > > > > > > working, at the same time gaim would core dump after about 30 seconds
> > > > > > > - I got the gaim problem fixed by doing a portupgrade -fR gaim after
> > > > > > > the new one was released yesterday morning, but after doing
> > > > > > > portupgrades on both gnome and XFree86, I still have problems with
> > > > > > > gnome and had to revert to fluxbox or ion as my windowmanager.
> > > > > > > Can anyone give me an idea of where to look for clues as to why these
> > > > > > > apps are quitting unexpectedly, and/or how to fix them? --Also,
> > > > > > > "inform the developers" locks up...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The console and/or ~/.xsession-errors should hold any error messages.
> > > > > > If applications start to die after upgrades, I would look for missing
> > > > > > shared libraries.  In general, a portupgrade -rf pkgconfig should get
> > > > > > all of GNOME in sync.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Joe
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -joe
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