Strange GNOME message captured

[Marius Gedminas]

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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