Bug#483799: gnome-control-center: fails to start gnome settings deamon

[Mario Frasca]

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.20.3-3
Severity: important

Ciao Marco,
a few days ago I rebooted the system and I got the error screen:

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
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.

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I do more or less daily a "safe-upgrade" but I usually stay logged in
for days, so I don't know how many days or weeks ago this error was
introduced.

grazie,
ciao,
Mario

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  capplets-data     1:2.20.3-3             configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-util 0.15-1                 Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gnome-desktop-dat 2.22.2-1               Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-icon-theme  2.22.0-1               GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-menus       2.22.2-1               an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libart-2.0-2      2.3.20-2               Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0       1.22.0-1               The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0      2.22.0-1               Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0    2.22.0-1               The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6             2.7-11                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2         1.6.4-3                The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.1-2                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.74-4                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2-9     2.22.2-1               Client library for evolution addre
ii  libesd-alsa0 [lib 0.2.36-3               Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libfontconfig1    2.5.93-1               generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6      2.3.5-1                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- 2.22.2-1               Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2    2.22.2-1               an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome-window-s 1:2.20.3-3             Utility library for getting window
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  libgnomekbd1      2.20.0-3               GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomekbdui1    2.20.0-3               User interface library for libgnom
ii  libgnomeui-0      2.20.1.1-1             The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0    1:2.22.0-3             GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plug 0.10.19-2              GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10- 0.10.19-3              Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0       2.12.9-4               The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1           0.5.11-1               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6           2:1.0.4-1              X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity0      1:2.22.0-1             library of lightweight GTK2 based 
ii  libnautilus-exten 2.20.0-4               libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2         1:2.14.12-0.1          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2- 2.20.3-4               library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0     1.20.2-2               Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0        1.2.27-1               PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0          1.10-3                 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libslab0          0.9.8.svn.20070430-1.1 beautification app library file
ii  libsm6            2:1.0.3-1+b1           X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notifi 0.9-1                  library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6          2:1.1.1-1ubuntu3       X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1       1:1.1.9-1              X cursor management library
ii  libxft2           2.1.12-2               FreeType-based font drawing librar
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        2:1.2.2-2              X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1       1:0.9.4-1              X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxss1           1:1.1.3-1              X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxxf86misc1     1:1.0.1-3              X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-0.1  high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  evolution-data-server         2.22.2-1   evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-session                 2.20.3-2   The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-user-guide              2.22.1-1   GNOME user's guide

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