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symack at gmail

Sep 3, 2009, 3:38 PM

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Error Message When Loading into Gnome

Hello Everyone,

Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt
computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait)

Just a few porblems with this fresh install:

When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox:

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
correctly.
The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

services hald is started and dbus is started

another error is when issuing a:
su root
nautilus

I am getting

(nautilus:11539): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2
directory: No such file or directory
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `d/.gnome2/': No
such file or directory

Logging into gnome using root (I know is not advised), I am reciving many
error that look similar to:

`d/.gnome2/': No such file or directory

Your patience and help is greatly appreciated,
Ninus,

symack at gmail

Sep 3, 2009, 5:21 PM

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Re: Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome [In reply to]

Hey Walt,

Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right
now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as
expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my
first suspicious message, "No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/", when
issuing a echo $HOME I am recieving "/". And when doing a startx it loads,
nothing works and the Desktop does not load the items in the folder. This is
not the case with ninus a user that I just created.

Your Help is Greatly Appreciated,
Ninus

w41ter at gmail

Sep 3, 2009, 6:20 PM

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Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome [In reply to]

On 09/03/2009 03:38 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt
> computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait)
>
> Just a few porblems with this fresh install:
>
> When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox:
>
> There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
> Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
> correctly.
> The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.

That error message became very familiar to some of us during the upgrade
from gnome 2.24 to 2.26 on ~x86 a few months ago.

The underlying problem is that gnome-session tries to start a session dbus
and fails (I am told) due to a bug in gnome-session. So the fix is to start
gnome-session with 'dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' in your
~/.xinitrc (if you use startx.)

Alternatively you can use 'exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome' in your .xinitrc,
or, if you use gdm, you can set XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf, which
executes exactly the same shellscript indirectly.

The whole point of the above is that a session dbus has to be running
*before* gnome-settings-daemon is started, or you will get the error you
quoted above and nothing works right after that.

gottlieb at nyu

Sep 3, 2009, 8:24 PM

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Re: Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome [In reply to]

At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:21:38 -0400 Nick Khamis <symack [at] gmail> wrote:

> Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right
> now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as
> expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my
> first suspicious message, "No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/", when
> issuing a echo $HOME I am recieving "/"

At that point (right after issuing "echo $HOME") try cd /root.
If that fails (as it probably will), then post the output of
ls -ld / /root

allan

symack at gmail

Sep 3, 2009, 8:33 PM

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Re: Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome [In reply to]

That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do
is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab
looked ok.

I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME
did return /root.

If I do not make mistakes I will not learn.

This is a great mailing list I am very gratefull for the response time and
help I am getting out of it. Hope to return the favour to someone in this
list in the future whom is making the same mistakes I am currently making.

Regards,
Ninus.

gottlieb at nyu

Sep 4, 2009, 6:31 AM

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Re: Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome [In reply to]

At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:33:55 -0400 Nick Khamis <symack [at] gmail> wrote:

> That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do
> is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab
> looked ok.
>
> I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME
> did return /root.
>
> If I do not make mistakes I will not learn.
>
> This is a great mailing list I am very gratefull for the response time and
> help I am getting out of it. Hope to return the favour to someone in this
> list in the future whom is making the same mistakes I am currently making.

We were all in your situation at some point. Indeed, I felt most
comfortable with gentoo because of the great help on this list.

Good luck!

allan

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