Bug#686549: gnome-settings-daemon: fails to register before timeout

[Brice Goglin]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.4.2-4+b1
Severity: important

Hello,

I get gnome-shell failures at startup very often (not always reproducible).
According to .xsession-errors, it's related to gnome-settings-daemon
failing to register before timeout. There's no additional detail so
I have no idea what it going on.

I seem to remember that I fixed it once by changing my cups server
config (it was failing to contact a wrong server, and thus caused
gnome-settings-daemon to timeout, which is just non-sense by the way).

Now that the above is not responsible of the failure anymore,
I don't know where to look at. It seems to happen more often
at the office (with an external screen connected to the dock
station) than at home. But I really have no clue.

The problem does not seem to ever occur with a fresh new account.
But I am really tired to destroying my entire desktop config
every 2 weeks or :/

Brice


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-2
ii  dpkg                                         1.16.8
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.4.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-35
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-4
ii  libcolord1                                   0.1.21-1
ii  libcomerr2                                   1.42.5-1
ii  libcups2                                     1.5.3-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.100-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.9.0-7
ii  libgcrypt11                                  1.5.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2                         3.4.2-1
ii  libgnomekbd7                                 3.4.0.2-1
ii  libgnutls26                                  2.12.20-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2                             1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               175-3.1
ii  libk5crypto3                                 1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  libkrb5-3                                    1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.2+git20110628-2.2
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-1
ii  libnspr4                                     2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnspr4-0d                                  2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnss3                                      2:3.13.5-1
ii  libnss3-1d                                   2:3.13.5-1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.7.5-2
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      2.0-6
ii  libpulse0                                    2.0-6
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.13-1
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.17-1
ii  libwacom2                                    0.5-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0-4
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxklavier16                                5.2.1-1
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.1-1
ii  nautilus-data                                3.4.2-1
ii  zlib1g                                       1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  pulseaudio  2.0-6

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver            3.4.1-1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:2.34.3-2
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]    3.4.1-5
ii  twm [x-window-manager]       1:1.0.6-1
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.7~3
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]     4.8.3-1

-- no debconf information