Bug#481030: gnome-settings-daemon: 'failed to start' error messages at login, themes et al not working

Christian Pernegger pernegger at gmail.com
Tue May 13 09:52:29 UTC 2008


Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.22.1-2
Severity: important


This issue was originally reported as #476802. That bug has since been
marked as fixed, even though the fix apparently has nothing to do with
my problem.

Anyway, on every graphical login, done via gdm, I get a number of
error message windows in rapid succession, which vanish quickly. What
I can make out is something like: "Message did not receive a
reply. Timeout by message bus."
The last of these messages stays on the screen and has a different
text stating that the settings daemon had been restarted too often,
that it would stop trying till the next login and that themes and such
would not work. They don't.

This happens on both my Debian-testing-amd64+GNOME boxes, even on a
brand new test user.

xsession-errors attached on the remote chance that it's got anything
to do with this.

Thanks,

C.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0          0.2.6-7           Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-1+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-2           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.74-2            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3          Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libfontconfig1         2.5.0-2           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.3-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2     2.22.1-1          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomekbd2           2.22.0-1          GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-2        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.19-1         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.19-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.9-3          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.12-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.2-2          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.10.0-2          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.10-3            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-1+b1      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1             library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxklavier12          3.5-1             X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.2-1         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxxf86misc1          1:1.0.1-2         X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
-------------- next part --------------
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=de_AT.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
SESSION_MANAGER=local/mohammed:/tmp/.ICE-unix/23399

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23453): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23453): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".
Fenstermanager-Warnung:Gespeicherte Sitzungsdatei /home/chris/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms konnte nicht gelesen werden: Failed to open file '/home/chris/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms': Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Fenstermanager-Warnung:Log level 32: could not find XKB extension.
Initializing gnome-mount extension

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23466): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23466): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23507): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23507): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".

(gnome-panel:23463): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -15 and height 25

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23519): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23519): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".
Debug: Done reading conf from /home/chris/.beagle/config/BeagleSearch.xml
Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/BeagleSearch.xml

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23532): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23532): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings

(gnome-panel:23463): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_xsettings_watch_cb(): Couldn't find window to unwatch
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".
Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/Daemon.xml

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23538): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23538): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0
Got Event! 33, -1
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".
Keymap changed! Regrabbing keys...Removing grab for 'F12'
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0
Keymap changed! Regrabbing keys...Removing grab for 'F12'
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0
Keymap changed! Regrabbing keys...Removing grab for 'F12'
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23550): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23550): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Keymap changed! Regrabbing keys...Removing grab for 'F12'
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23558): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23558): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Keymap changed! Regrabbing keys...Removing grab for 'F12'
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23564): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23564): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Keymap changed! Regrabbing keys...Removing grab for 'F12'
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23571): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23571): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Keymap changed! Regrabbing keys...Removing grab for 'F12'
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23577): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error

** (gnome-settings-daemon:23577): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available,
no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings
Keymap changed! Regrabbing keys...Removing grab for 'F12'
Got accel 65481, 0, 0
Got keycode 96
Got modmask 0
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0".


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