Unexpected config problem--how to fix?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 12:58 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> im running Gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. i havent updated anything in
> awhile and im not doing anything fancy.
> 
> My panel suddenly got messed up--the icons faded away and got streaky.
> The screen i was on was usable but i couldnt move to another desktop or
> launch anything from the top or bottom panel.
> 
> So i ran gdm-restart and now i cant even log in, i get a message with
> "the configuration file contains an invalid command line for the login dialog,
> so running the defulat command. Please fix your configuration". But then when i
> log in it still doesnt work, "There was an error starting the GNOME settings
> daemon...The last error message was: EOF from child process." and i cant log 
> in, i can only launch the Failsafe x-term.
> 
> How do i fix this? My Gnome apps are uptodate and i havent changed anything.

Login to X, and run /usr/X11R6/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon from the
command line.  What errors do you get?

Joe

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