Bug#245848: capplets: gnome-settings-daemon fails to start

[Rob Speer]

Package: capplets
Version: 1:2.6.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: experimental

I'm running GNOME 2.6 from experimental. Every time I try to start
GNOME, I get a message that gnome-settings-daemon failed to start
because it restarted too many times. Then I get a desktop without my
theme loaded.

I don't seem to have a binary named 'gnome-settings-daemon', though
there is one named 'gnome-settings-daemon.real'. If I run that, it works
fine, and loads my desktop theme and most of my preferences. (It does
not load my number of workspaces, and Nautilus' icons are all "blank
sheets of paper" no matter what I do).

This same effect happens if I go to Applications > Desktop Preferences >
Theme.

Symlinking /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon.real to
/usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon did not solve the problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages capplets depends on:
ii  capplets-data               1:2.6.1-1    configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.6.1-1    The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii  gnome-desktop-data          2.6.1-1      Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-icon-theme            1.2.0-2      GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel                 2.6.1-1      Launch and/or dock GNOME 2 applica
ii  gnome-session               2.6.1-2      The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-5     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libasound2                  1.0.4-1      Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.6.0-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-3      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.6.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.6.0-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                   2.6.1-1      Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0                     0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1              2.2.2-2      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgail-common              1.4.1-1      GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                   1.4.1-1      GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.6.1-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt7                  1.1.90-1.1   LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.3.6-4    Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.0-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2          2.6.1-1      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-keyring0           0.2.1-1      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.6.1-1      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.6.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.6.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.6.1.1-2    The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls10                 1.0.4-3      GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0               0.7-1        library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.4.0-2      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-9         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmetacity0                1:2.8.0-3    Common library of lightweight GTK2
ii  libnautilus2-2              2.6.1-1      libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.10.0-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.4.0-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.6-2        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtasn1-2                  0.2.7-1      Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                     2.1.2-6      FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxklavier8                1.02-1       X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                     2.6.9-1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                  4.3.0-7      X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1                 0.8.3-7      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus                    2.6.1-1      file manager and graphical shell f
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

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Rob Speer