Bug#539359: Seems to occur on laptops but not on desktop PC's

[Brent Goodrick]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Brent Goodrick<bgoodr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/12 Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>
>>
>> Le samedi 08 août 2009 à 18:53 -0700, Brent Goodrick a écrit :
>> > I have a Debian Lenny desktop PC (64-bit), and a Debian Lenny laptop
>> > (32-bit).  The problem occurs for me only on the laptop in the same
>> > way as given by
>> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/gnome-settings-daemon-error-743425/#post3636199 so there are others that are seeing this as well.  Both desktop and laptop systems are kept up to date for Debian updates.
>>
>> Can any of you tell me whether upgrading gnome-settings-daemon to
>> version 2.26 from unstable, or downgrading gnome-control-center to
>> version 2.24 from July, solves the bug?
>>
>
> Hi Josselin,
>
> "sudo dpkg --list gnome-settings-daemon" for my laptop returns:
>
>
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  gnome-settings 2.24.1-3       daemon handling the GNOME session settings
>
>
> If you can show me how to temporarily downgrade or upgrade without
> destabilizing the GNOME setup or any other setup, and without forcing
> modification of other parts of my setup, I would be happy to try it
> out.
>
> Thanks,
> Brent
>

Update: To clarify my concern about destabilizing, reference the
thread at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/error-starting-the-gnome-settings-daemon-746581/#post3641732
where it seems that the upgrading of that package to the unstable
version pulls in other package dependencies which I probably don't
want to have to figure out how to unroll. :)

bg