On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:38:00AM -0500, mukesh agrawal wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jim Seymour wrote: > > > Hi All, > > Still have not been able to run GNOME on Sarge. If I try to boot > > into GNOME I get a very brief view of a splash screen and then a small > > window pops up in the corner of the screen with the following message: > > > > "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 activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_SetingsDaemon'" > > > > "GNOME will try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in" > > > > There is a close button in the corner of this window. I can close that > > window however I have to cntrl-alt-f2 in order to be able to login as > > root to reboot. This is the same message I have been getting every since > > I installed Sarge a few months ago. KDE is working fine. Anyone else > > have a problem getting GNOME up? > > A couple of shots in the dark: > > 1. Is your loopback interface working properly? (Can you ping 127.0.0.1?) > > 2. Have you tried deleting your gnome config files? (Or rather, move them > to some sub-directory. E.g. "mkdir BAD-CONFIG; mv .gnome* .gconf* > BAD-CONFIG".)
Thanks for the suggestions. 1. I can ping the loopback device fine. 2. I moved the .gnome* and .gconf* files to another directory. Same results as before and same message :-( Any other ideas? Thanks, Jim Seymour -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
