Appearance prefs 'reset' after about 30 seconds

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Tue, 18 May 2010 19:59:08 -0700, NoOp wrote:

> On 05/18/2010 09:04 AM, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:21:21 +0100, sam tygier wrote:
>> 
>>> On 16/05/10 21:25, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
>>>> When I start my computer, Ubuntu 10.04 boots just fine. But about 30
>>>> seconds after my desktop appears, the appearance goes from this...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.arumes.com/temp/S1.png
>>>>
>>>> ...to this...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.arumes.com/temp/S2.png
>>>>
>>>> As soon as I start Prefs/Appearance, most of the settings are
>>>> restored without setting anything. Running the Appearance program is
>>>> enough to restore most. Nautilus (and the right-click menu on the
>>>> desktop) seems to be the only exception; it doesn't change back to
>>>> the appearance I selected, but stays in the looks of the second
>>>> screenshot.
>>>>
>>>> It's 10.04, 64 bits, proprietary ATI driver, and visual effects are
>>>> all switched off. I didn't have this problem with 9.10, and I don't
>>>> have the problem with 10.04 NE on my netbook.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> looks like gnome-settings-daemon is crashing, and the theme falls back
>>> to gtk defaults. there could be an interesting message in
>>> ~/.xsession-errors
>>> 
>>> can you put it on http://paste.ubuntu.com/
>> 
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/435606/
>> 
>> I'm sorry for the delay, but the error didn't occur at all yesterday.
>> And today, after two boots with the error, the third attempt booted as
>> it should again. So it doesn't happen all the time. This did enable me
>> to extract the part of xsession-errors that's linked to the error,
>> which is pasted as requested.
>> 
>> 
> I experienced a similar issue following updates the other day. In my
> case all applications except nautilus would abide by the theme(s), but
> nautilus would do exactly as yours did. I kept the bookmarks of the
> issues and finally sorted it out by doing the suggestion in comment #22
> of this bug report:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/500417
>  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/500417/
comments/22>
> 
> <quote>
> workaround that worked for me: I removed  ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus and
> killed the nautilus process. After that the problem went away. </quote>
> 
> Suggestion: rather than remove ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus instead just
> rename it so that you can go back to your original if necessary. You can
> do this via nautilus, or via the terminal:
> 
> $ mv ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus ~/.gconf/apps/x-nautilus-x
> 
> Also see:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/516384
> [duplicate of 500417 & note the screenshots]
> 
> I suspect that it what you've run into.
> 
> Added note: I do not experience the issue on other users on the same
> machine, so the problem most likely is somewhere in the user
> config/profile files.

But as you can see in my screenshot, it isn't just Nautilus.



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