Re: error starting the GNOME Settings Deamon

[Hans Nieser <h nieser xs4all nl>]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 2/26/06, Hans Nieser <h nieser xs4all nl> wrote:
>> I am running Gentoo (2005.1 with testing portage tree) with Gnome 2.12.3.
>> Whenever I login into gnome, either as normal user or root, I am presented
>> with this error:
>>
>> [quote]There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Deamon.
>> ...
>> The Settings Deamon restarted too many times.
>> Last error message was:
>> Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occured
> 
> If you can find out what's starting the daemon,
> try having it start it under strace or gdb.  That would
> at least give you some idea where it's failing.
> - Dan

I found out gconf was failing because I had removed gstreamer (trying to
solve a dependency issue under Gentoo) without realising what exactly
depended on it. So I guess something requiring gstreamer interacted with
gconf and took it down with it. I suppose it would've been nice to have
gotten a bit more info somehow from gconf but after reinstalling gstreamer
all is fine now, sorry for the noise