Re: Possible kde44 conflict breaking gnome - need help finding out

[Neil Bird <neil fnxweb com>]

Around about 16/02/10 09:48, David C. Rankin typed ...
>    I need your help figuring out what is killing my gnome 2.2 install on openSuSE
> 11.0 (x86_64).

  This is just a random thought or two, I'm not professing to have any 
detailed clue about any of these low-level GNOME/KDE processes!


> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
>    Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take
>    effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE)
>    settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME
>    settings manager.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  If this is not the root cause of all your woes, it's definitely the first 
thing to figure out.  I personally wouldn't be worrying about /any/ of the 
other symptoms until this is running OK.

  *Is* there another (KDE) settings thing running, somehow added to your 
login?  I don't know what the KDE equivalent of g-s-d would be, but really 
from login (into a GNOME session) I would hope not to see any KDE processes 
(unless you're also starting KDE apps. at login).

  Try killing any KDE-like processes.


  Also try starting gnome-sessions-daemon on the command line (it's in 
/usr/libexec on my Fedora box) to see if you get anything more (although all 
output should be in .xsession-errors).  Maybe there's a debug flag in the 
thing (don't hold you breath on that, I've seen few GNOME apps. with debug 
flags, I think it tends to be more along the lines of environment-variable 
switches).


  'Course, you could try (temporarily?) uninstalling all the kde44 packages 
to see if that helps, and them maybe try to selectively re-install them 
until stuff goes wrong.

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