Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
I have this Bug on Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 on two different machines(one is x64, the
other x86), i don't know where this comes from or how to give you information
about it, but after a (random!) period of time the gnome-settings-daemon
doesn't work anymore.
You can't kill it or restart it, just a restart helps. I even tried a fresh
profile, same problem.
I recognize this error because first of all my media keys doesn't work anymore.
After that, when you try to change your wallpaper or something (or some
keyboard settings e.g.) your always get the error:
"Der Einstellungsverwalter »gnome-settings-daemon« konnte nicht gestartet
werden. Ohne den GNOME-Einstellungsverwalter werden möglicherweise einige
Einstellungen nicht wirksam. Dies könnte auf ein Problem mit Bonobo oder einen
bereits aktiven, nicht-GNOME- (z.B. KDE-)Einstellungsverwalter hindeuten, der
mit dem GNOME-Einstellungsverwalter in Konflikt geraten ist."(sry i only have
the german version.)
Another intresting point is, that conky does also stop working shortly
after the gnome-settings-daemon does. But i had this error bevor i had
conky, so conky doesn't produce this error.
I also thought of rythmbox, google chrome and so on producing this
error, but not using on of these didn't stop the error. It always came
after some time.
I also looked in dmesg, .xsession-errors etc. for errors belonging to
this but i found nothing.
The only solution is a restart, because you can't stop/kill the gnome-
settings-daemon anymore after it beginns to hang.
It is hard to test, because sometimes it works 10 hours and then it
begins to hang and sometimes it hangs after an hour uptime.
I also found that out when it hangs:
G_DEBUG=fatal_criticals gnome-settings-daemon
** (gnome-settings-daemon:11942): WARNING **: Failed to acquire
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon
** (gnome-settings-daemon:11942): WARNING **: Could not acquire name
rhythmbox also recognizes this error, errors in .xsession-errors
(rhythmbox:2528): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player keys: Did
not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not
send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
I also tried attching gdb to it, but didn't get that to work ..maybe
someone could help.
Hope you can help me, or tell/help me how to provide more infos, i
really want to know why this happens and solve it.
I really wonder why nobody ever recognized this bug, because i have it
on several (different!) machines.
THx!
Version of Ubuntu: 10.04/10.10 x86/x64 (every Version produces this error)
Version of gnome-settings-daemon: 2.32.0-0ubuntu3 (i think older ones are also
affected.)
Sry for bad english.
** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: gnome-settings-daemon
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gnome-settings-daemon does stop working after a random time and hangs, is not
able to be killed, only a restart helps.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666015
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