Subject: Re: RH 8.0 and Gnome Settings Daemon
From: Doc Rea (rea@docrea.net)
Date: Sun Jan 05 2003 - 03:47:32 AKST
Thanks. It turned out to be that the controller wasn't installed from
Gnome 1.x to 2.x when I did the upgrade. After I did that...Things were
working well.
Of course now I'm looking at the teletubbish Bluecurve. It's solid
underneath and at least I have a terminal to run to when I get scared ;}
On 4 Jan 2003, Anthony Valentine wrote:
>
> Have you tried running 'oaf-slay'? Whenever I have problems with
> evolution, that seems to fix it.
>
> Anthony
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 03:52, Doc Rea wrote:
> >
> > Hey all:
> >
> > I just upgraded my system from RH 7.3 running a full Evolution package.
> > Here's an error I get each time:
> >
> > I get a popup with this 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_SettingsDaemon
> > GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in."
> >
> > I am able to log in okay, but the desktop is blank (no background) and
> > some apps are disabled.
> >
> > Anyone run into this. I've been looking online, but the only advice folks
> > have given so far is "install KDE" Not ready to go that route yet.
> > Nothing against KDE, but I wanted to try Bluecurve for awhile.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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