Dan Kegel wrote: > On 2/26/06, Hans Nieser <h.nieser@xxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
