> 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?
When I first installed Debian I discovered I was missing a needed package for GNOME. Although that never fixed the problem I was poking around in the GNOME packages again and found out I supposedly do not have gnome-control-center installed. An apt-get install gnome-control-center gave an ominous message about removing gnome-core. nuthatch:/home/jim# apt-get install gnome-control-center Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnome-desktop-data libeel2-2 libeel2-data libgail-common libgail17 libgnome-desktop-2 libmetacity0 libnautilus2-2 libstartup-notification0 The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome-core The following NEW packages will be installed: gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data libeel2-2 libeel2-data libgail-common libgail17 libgnome-desktop-2 libmetacity0 libnautilus2-2 libstartup-notification0 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 3558kB of archives. After unpacking 7664kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Ideas? I am grasping at straws here. I used Red Hat before and am not that far into the Debian learning curve. Thanks, Jim Seymour -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
