Strange GNOME message captured

[Karl F. Larsen]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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
>   
    I am on Intrepid today. I will boot Hardy and try to get the error 
message(s).

Karl


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