Bug#404876:

[Rick Thomas]

On Dec 28, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 18:55 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit :
>>> I changed "etch" to "unstable" in sources.list.  Then I did
>>> "aptitude update && aptitude install liborbit2 orbit2". It
>>> installed orbit2 and upgraded liborbit2 to version 1:2.14.4-1 and
>>> held back a whole bunch of stuff.  Then I logged out and back in
>>> again.  No change.  It still goes all wiggly on me and finally
>>> gives me the second error popup.  (The first error popup isn't
>>> expected at this point -- I answered "Delete" the first time it
>>> came up a while ago and haven't seen it since.)
>>>
>>> On an off chance, I rebooted the system.  Still no change.  Still
>>> all wiggly.
>>
>> Interesting difference -- Now it stays wiggly forever (well -- for 5
>> minutes or more).  I never actually see the error popup, and the
>> wiggles never go away.
>
> Looks like gnome-settings-daemon is dying again and again.

Yes.  I can confirm that repeated "ps" gives different pids each time  
for gnome-settings-daemon .

>
> Is there any relevant output in your ~/.xsession-errors file ?
>

it looks like this:

> Xsession: X session started for rick at Thu Dec 28 18:45:08 EST 2006
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/debian:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3460
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> Unable to open desktop file epiphany.desktop for panel launcher

Does that help?

Rick