Strange GNOME message captured
Marius Gedminas
marius at pov.lt
Sat Feb 7 01:12:48 UTC 2009
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:48:41PM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> I have been working on things and when I rebooted to Hardy I got the
> odd message which is:
>
> I had to copy this from the panel put up by Hardy:
>
> There is an error starting the Gnome Settings Daemon.
>
> Some things like themes,sounds, or background settings may not work
> correctly.
>
> The last error message was:
>
> Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
> application did not send a reply, the reply timeout expired, or the
> network connection was broken.
>
> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in
>
> Does anyone else get this with their Ubuntu. Is it serious?
Not serious, but irritating. Widgets don't look right, some shortcut
keys (e.g. volume control) don't work.
You can open a terminal window and try to start gnome-settings-daemon
manually (by typing 'gnome-settings-daemon'). If it fails to start,
report the error message you get.
Marius Gedminas
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