Package: gnome-settings-daemon Version: 3.21.90-2 Severity: important What led up to the situation? A: booting and logging in
What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? A: using the function keys, the applet in the top bar and tried accessing the settings panel in System Settings What was the outcome of this action? A: nothing happened, but see logs What outcome did you expect instead? A: brightes adjusts as expected --- This is on a Macbook Pro late 2010 with a GeForce 320m using the Nouveau driver. The following log messages seem to be related: ... Sep 7 12:54:05 yavin4 gnome-settings-[3260]: Failed to create GnomeRRScreen: Methode »GetResources« gab Typ »(ua(uxiiiiiuaua{sv})a(uxiausauaua{sv})a(uxuud)ii)« zurück, aber »(ua(uxiiiiiuaua{sv})a(uxiausauaua{sv})a(uxuudu)ii)« wurde erwartet Sep 7 12:54:05 yavin4 gnome-settings-[3260]: failed to get screens: Methode »GetResources« gab Typ »(ua(uxiiiiiuaua{sv})a(uxiausauaua{sv})a(uxuud)ii)« zurück, aber »(ua(uxiiiiiuaua{sv})a(uxiausauaua{sv})a(uxuudu)ii)« wurde erwartet Sep 7 12:54:06 yavin4 gnome-settings-[3260]: Failed to construct RR screen: Methode »GetResources« gab Typ »(ua(uxiiiiiuaua{sv})a(uxiausauaua{sv})a(uxuud)ii)« zurück, aber »(ua(uxiiiiiuaua{sv})a(uxiausauaua{sv})a(uxuudu)ii)« wurde erwartet ... Sep 7 12:54:12 yavin4 gnome-shell[3137]: JS LOG: Could not set property Brightness on remote object /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/Power: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Manager is starting or stopping ... I was able to set the screen brightness directly by entering the following: echo 100 > /sys/class/backlight/nv_backlight/brightness Let me know what else I can provide to track this down. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.21.4-2 ii libasound2 1.1.2-1 ii libc6 2.23-5 ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1+b1 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-3 ii libcanberra0 0.30-3 ii libcolord2 1.3.2-1 ii libcups2 2.1.4-4 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.34.0-1 ii libgeoclue-2-0 2.4.3-1 ii libgeocode-glib0 3.20.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.49.6-1 ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.21.90-3 ii libgtk-3-0 3.21.5-3 ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3 ii libgweather-3-6 3.20.3-1 ii liblcms2-2 2.7-1 ii libnm0 1.2.4-2 ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2 ii libnspr4 2:4.12-2 ii libnss3 2:3.25-1 ii libpam-systemd 231-4 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.2-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.2-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-16 ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 9.0-3 ii libpulse0 9.0-3 ii librsvg2-2 2.40.16-1 ii libupower-glib3 0.99.4-3 ii libwacom2 0.19-1 ii libwayland-client0 1.11.0-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.6-1 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii nautilus-data 3.20.3-1 Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends: ii iio-sensor-proxy 1.1-1 ii pulseaudio 9.0-3 gnome-settings-daemon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information