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Halocaridina
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Post subject: Synaptic Update broke Gnome Setting Daemon?
 Posted: Mar 02, 2008 - 08:22 PM
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Hi everyone,
I updated Parsix 1.0 today via Synaptic. The ~39 packages upgraded without issue. However, after logging out and back into the sytem, I'm now experiencing issues with the gnome-settings-daemon autostarting at log in. Interestingly, I can start the daemon from a terminal and it appears to work correctly.
Has anyone else experienced this from today's updates? If so, which package(s) is broken?
Cheers,
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blix
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Post subject: RE: Synaptic Update broke Gnome Setting Daemon?
Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 06:22 AM
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If you're able to start it via shell so the package is OK. maybe there is a config issue somewhere.
do a "apt-get update && apt-get --reinstall install gdm". |
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xet7
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Post subject: RE: Synaptic Update broke Gnome Setting Daemon?
Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 09:18 AM
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Hi,
that didn't help, even dpkg-reconfigure gdm doesn't stop the problems.
Last error message is:
The name org.gnome.SettingsDaemon was not provided by any .service files |
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blix
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Post subject: RE: Synaptic Update broke Gnome Setting Daemon?
Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 10:55 AM
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known bug:
for now put Gnome settings daemon in GNOME Session. |
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arash-m
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Post subject: RE: Synaptic Update broke Gnome Setting Daemon?
Posted: Mar 03, 2008 - 07:31 PM
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| I have the same problem after upgrading GDM. When it'll be get right! |
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xet7
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Post subject: RE: Synaptic Update broke Gnome Setting Daemon?
Posted: Mar 04, 2008 - 05:23 PM
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Hi arash-m,
here's the more complete workaround, based on what blix said.
1) From top menu: System / Preferences / Session
2) Click Add, and the input:
Name: Gnome Settings Daemon
Command: gnome-settings-daemon
Comment: Waiting for bugfix
3) Click OK and Close
4) I had to adjust font size too, so from top menu:
System / Preferences / Appearance / Fonts
- change all to size 10.
After all this, only one extra error dialog box is shown after login,
otherwise works as normal. |
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Halocaridina
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Post subject: RE: Synaptic Update broke Gnome Setting Daemon?
Posted: Mar 04, 2008 - 08:15 PM
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Hi everyone,
It seems that the answer to my original question is that a file wasn't installed/created or was deleted during the upgrade. If you are experiencing this error, try the following. Also, please note that I tried to post this on March 3rd, but the server gave a "POST to /html/index.php not supported." error. I found out that this server doesn't like paths defined with forward slashes. Thus, in #2 and #4 below, replace all of the ";" with a forward slash (/) in your commands.
1) become root
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su
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cd ;usr;share;dbus-1;services
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pico org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.service
4) Add the following code to the above file:
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[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.gnome.SettingsDaemon
Exec=;usr;bin;gnome-settings-daemon
5) Save the file, log out and log back in. The error should now be gone.
Not sure why/how this file was not created or lost during the update. Perhaps there are some changes in how things will be done by D-BUS, gnome and the settings-daemon that haven't made it to the mirrors yet? In any case, this should get rid of the error for now, but may have to be reversed in the future due to other updates.
xet7 and arash-m, please let me know if this worked for you.
Cheers!!
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Posted: Mar 05, 2008 - 08:11 AM
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Halocaridina
Unfortunately I did not have pico org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.service. file at all. So using Gedit in root I created the file and added your code rebooted, Hey presto all works as it should
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING THAT WITH EVERYBODY. |
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xet7
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Posted: Mar 05, 2008 - 09:43 AM
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| Thanks Halocaridina, works great! |
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Halocaridina
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Posted: Mar 05, 2008 - 10:32 AM
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Hi Mandog and xet7,
Great to hear that it worked for both of you. Mandog, sorry about that; I should have clarified that any text editor could be used to create the file rather then pico.
I have to admit that I got the idea for this fix by comparing Parsix after the update to an installation of Ubuntu on one of my virtual machine. When I realized that a missing .service file was the source of the problem, I checked the contents of the dbus-1/services folder on Ubuntu and noticed that the org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.service file was missing in Parsix. The only difference between the Ubuntu and Parsix versions of the file is that the path to the gnome-settings-daemon is different between the two distros.
Hopefully, this fix doesn't break anything in upcoming updates. The reason that I say this is I find it difficult to understand how a file such as this would not be created or was deleted accidentally during the update. Given that, remember that you made this modification in case it needs to be reversed due to future changes to Gnome or the D-BUS system.
Lastly, if one of the admins for the forums is reading this, could you please check on why postings fail when there are slashes in path names? It was really painful and delayed posting this fix because of that (see above).
Cheers!!
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alan
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Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 10:32 AM
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| Would you please update your systems again and check if it's been fixed? |
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Halocaridina
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Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 12:11 PM
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Hi alan,
Updated the system yesterday (~55 packages) and everything is working great. I checked the timestamp on the org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.service file that I created to fix the problem and it hasn't changed. Thus, the update doesn't appear to have touched the file.
Was there a specific fix for this problem that an update was supposed to fix? If so, what was it?
Cheers,
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alan
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Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 02:53 PM
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| The gnome-control-center package contains a fix for that gnome-settings-daemon error. |
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arash-m
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Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 03:39 PM
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Hi Alan;
I have updated my system and nothing have been changed. I haven't use the Halocaridina way for fixing it either.
And also I have another problem too. The update notifier tells me that there are 6 updates still available, but there is nothing in update manager or synaptic to update!
Thanks for your hard work
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blix
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Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 07:17 PM
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arash-m wrote:
The update notifier tells me that there are 6 updates still available, but there is nothing in update manager or synaptic to update!
do a "apt-get -f install" first. then "apt-get update" or reload Update Notifier. |
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