GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 101939
During login gnome-settings-daemon continues to crash
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: gnome-desktop Severity: normal Version: 2.0.0 Synopsis: During login gnome-settings-daemon continues to crash Bugzilla-Product: gnome-desktop Bugzilla-Component: general BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.0.3) Description: Description of Problem: During login gnome-settings-daeome continously pops up alert-boxes with a text like this: "The gnome-settings-daemon (process <pid>) has crashed due to a fatal error" At present I cant see the real message because the graphics on the alert-box does not refresh so the left half remains grey after it has been covered by this editor, into which I am right now entering this text Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. I have freshly installed SuSE Linux 8.1 2. created a user account "l1l8" 3. logged in as this user to get this problems Actual Results: A number of services does not work Expected Results: normal gnome desktop. I additionally must say, that I originally expected a different lookalike but SuSE continues to misconfigure the desktops since they prefer KDE. How often does this happen? allways Additional Information: Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-settings-daemon' (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 1024 (LWP 2472)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... 0x40a95449 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
+ Trace 32032
Thread 1 (Thread 1024 (LWP 2472))
------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-12-25 06:20 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-desktop-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
moving to control center and re-assigning
What version of control-center are you using?
I finally found, that gnome seems to create directories in /tmp things like "orbit-<user-name>" In this case there where two users, 'user_a' and 'user_b'. In This case 'ls -l' showed something like this: drwx------+ 2 user_b users 136 2002-12-26 11:11 orbit-user_a So user_a did not own its orbit-directory. After changing the ownership, it worked. I have no idea how this happened, since I did not touch the files. I just found this by accident. It happened on a freshly installed SuSE 8.1
*** Bug 111427 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***