Re: Constantly Switching Gnome Theme on Fresh Install

On 3/5/07, Ananda Samaddar < a.k.samaddar@googlemail.com> wrote:

There is a known bug in Gstreamer that only affects non-Altivec PowerPC machines. You need to get upgraded libvisual packages from here:

http://people.debian.org/~sjoerd/libvisual/

This worked for me.

regards,

Ananda

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:14:17 +1300
Torrance < torrance123@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just done a fresh install of Debian Etch from a daily build net-
> install cd image on an iMac DV SE (g3, graphite), and everything is
> working fine except that the gnome theme is constantly changing
> between the one I have it set to and and old-looking theme. It looks
> as though there is some conflict between theme settings.
>
> After a while, I received this error:
>
> ____________________________________________
> 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:
>
> System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Child process did not
> give an error message, unknown failure occurred
>
> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log
> in.
> ______________________________________________
>
> So what's going on? It's bringing my system to a halt. Not sure if
> its a ppc-specific issue or not.
>
> Torrance
>
>
>
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