Bug#519698: gnome-settings-daemon: Gnome freezes mid-startup

[Adam Chlipala]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.22.2.1-2
Severity: important


When I start a Gnome session from gdm, things progress to the point where my user's desktop wallpaper is displayed, but something gets stuck shortly thereafter.  I can un-stuck it by running "killall -9 gnome-settings-daemon" 11 times.  After this, I see the usual error dialog about not being able to contact the settings daemon.  When I dismiss the dialog, almost everything works fine.  I think there are just a few appearance uglinesses that probably come from not being able to load some settings.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.24.0-7      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               2.24.0-2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.22.0-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.9-4         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.8.6-2       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.12-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.80-3        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd0                    0.2.36-3      Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4                2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.3-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.18.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.22.3-2      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.24.1-2      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             1:2.24.0-2    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0 0.10.22-3     GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0         0.10.22-2     Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.12-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.5-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.16-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.22.4-2      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              3.5-2         X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                    2.7.3.dfsg-1  GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.2.3-1     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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