Some modestly interesting lines in my F14 .xsession-errors file suggest I might benefit from some lessons in GNOMEish... Failed to play sound: File or data not found ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area ** (nm-applet:1923): WARNING **: get_all_cb: couldn't retrieve system settings properties: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings was not provided by any .service files. ** (nm-applet:1923): WARNING **: fetch_connections_done: error fetching system connections: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings was not provided by any .service files. (deja-dup-monitor:1961): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_get_uint: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_UINT (value)' failed Initializing nautilus-gdu extension (nautilus:1912): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name: assertion `format != NULL' failed ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area Some of these messages seem very vague. If I were to complain about file or data not found, I should want to say something about what file or data I cannot find... and identify what program has this complaint. Likewise, with applets coming and going, it would be more interesting if I knew what applets these are. The sound system does work: I can use "aplay" to play sound files, and I hear the usual assortment of click and tock sound effects. I assume "nm-applet" has something to do with NetworkManager, but that should not be running: [ryniker@mini ~]$ chkconfig --list NetworkManager NetworkManager 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off [ryniker@mini ~]$ Perhaps nm-applet is supposed to wait around until NetworkManager might run (that seems plausible), but these messages from nm-applet look like a program or configuration error. Does nm-applet actually refer to something else, and not NetworkManager? Hardware profile UUID from smolts.org: pub_724b6669-72b2-4d46-ada6-25a9c33376dc -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test