At Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:32:44 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
> Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to > 2.24. > > Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently). > This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login, > I can get in and work, but whenever I try > system>preferences>appearance > I get a dialog box saying that gnome-settings-setting cannot be started. > > Although I can get to the appearance dialog, various fonts are too big > and can't be changed. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. For anyone bitten by this a workaround is in this bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256016 allan
