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".) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
