Bug#543342: gnome-settings-daemon: G-S-D fails to start

[Stephen P. Williams]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.22.2.1-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


On all of my Debian systems (both x86 and x86_64), gnome-settings-daemon has
started to report an error message at login time that says:

  There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon

  Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background
  settings may not work correctly.

  The last error message was:

  Did not receive a reply.  Possible causes include: the remote
  application did not send a reply, the message bus security
  policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the
  network connection was broken.

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

Of course, the message repeats at the next login.  I have tried creating
a brand new user and the message occurs for the new user as well.

I have tried running gnome-settings-daemon from the command line:

  stevew at roadkill:~$ gnome-settings-daemon

  ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8503): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon

  ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8503): WARNING **: Could not acquire name

Please let me know how I can help debug further.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (850, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.26.2-3       GNOME configuration database syste
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  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-7        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.24.1-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.22.0-1       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.9-23         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.8.8-2        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.2.16-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.82-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]    0.2.36-3       Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.26.2-3       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.4-1      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.20.4-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.22.3-2       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              2.22.0-2       GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.20.1.1-2     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            1:2.22.0-5     GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base 0.10.23-3      GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0        0.10.24-1      Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.16.5-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.4-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.17-0.1  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.24.5-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.14-4         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    2:1.1.0-2      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.9-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libxi6                    2:1.1.4-1      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxklavier12             3.9-1          X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                   2.7.3.dfsg-2.1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.3.0-2      X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.4-2      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxxf86misc1             1:1.0.1-3      X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio

gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.

gnome-settings-daemon suggests no packages.

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