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Re: No Gnome-settings-Daemon (Sarge + Woody control-center)



On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:50:06 +0200, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:

> I upgraded from Woody to Sarge last week, and now I cannot start my
> gnome. Xfree and KDE works. Well actually I had some problems with the
> xserver of sarge, so now I am running xfree from woody. Bug report
> here
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/debian-x-200308/msg00177.html

Probably some option the X server doesn't like. Although I don't know
which one :-)

> I realize that this is not a proper bug report, but I am a little
> confused about which log files I should look in. I have checked
> /var/log/syslog, /var/log/XFRee86 and /var/gdm, but I seem to miss
> some information.

You X server works, so these logfiles aren't likely to contain useful
information.

> Is is correct for me to use the gnome-settings-daemon from Woody?

AFAICT, no.

> Which information should I provide to describe my problem better?

~/.xsession-errors
~/.gnome-errors

> Is there a chance that this problem will dissapear by itself as new
> gnome2 packages enter testing?

Might well be. The testing GNOME is broken at the moment. I don't know to
what degree it is broken, as I don't run testing anywhere.

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