Re: Cannot load GNOME under Sarge

[Jim Seymour <bluejay@speedfactory.net>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:38:00AM -0500, mukesh agrawal wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jim Seymour wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 	Still have not been able to run GNOME on Sarge. If I try to boot
> > into GNOME I get a very brief view of a splash screen and then a small
> > window pops up in the corner of the screen with the following message:
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > "The last error message was:"
> > "Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_SetingsDaemon'"
> >
> > "GNOME will try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in"
> >
> > There is a close button in the corner of this window. I can close that
> > window however I have to cntrl-alt-f2 in order to be able to login as
> > root to reboot. This is the same message I have been getting every since
> > I installed Sarge a few months ago. KDE is working fine.  Anyone else
> > have a problem getting GNOME up?
> 
> A couple of shots in the dark:
> 
> 1. Is your loopback interface working properly? (Can you ping 127.0.0.1?)
> 
> 2. Have you tried deleting your gnome config files? (Or rather, move them
>    to some sub-directory. E.g. "mkdir BAD-CONFIG; mv .gnome* .gconf*
>    BAD-CONFIG".)

Thanks for the suggestions.

1. I can ping the loopback device fine.

2. I moved the .gnome* and .gconf* files to another directory. Same 
results as before and same message :-(

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Jim Seymour