>One more time again, I'm facing this "Gnome n'a pu démarrer le >démon de >préférence. Pour l'instant il sera désactivé et vous n'aurez pas >accès >aux thèmes, sons ... ) -> Gnome was unable to launch gnome >preferences >daemon. >So i don't have theme ( ugly default one for style, color, theme, >nautilus icons ), can't launch some applets ( windows list/systray, >desktop switcher ) because of an OAFIID cryptic error ...
I've been seeing this alot lately and I believe it has something to do (in my case, may be similar) with dhcp. In my situation I've configured my machine using zeroconf with my adsl connection (machine doesn't seem to retain the given hostname and still uses the hostname provided by the ISP but that's another issue) which obtains its configuration via dhcp. Now what I have seen is that whenever my lease is renewed and I am issued another IP, anything that is currently running on the desktop is fine whereas anything that is attempted to be ran (any application trying to connect to the X server) fails, even when attempting to run the application as the root user. The typical error message is that the application cannot connect to the X server on the running display. I've even tried running xhost to string up a temporary fix so I can continue to use the machine. In relation to the above bug, I have found that restarting the X server does not resolve the issue, whereas a reboot will. Perhaps even a change of runlevels from 5 to 1 and back may fix it but I have not yet tried. If the X server is restarted, and you log in again, you will get the above messages consistantly. Perhaps there are others that have experienced this but just are not aware of it. :) Anyway, enough from me, I'll go back to lurking now. Deryk
