[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2009-01-01 Thread tinkerer
aasen, thanks for the tip. unfortunately, changing owner did not fix my problem. i am trying to connect to a public wifi access point. i can connect using my other laptop running vista. i used to be able to connect with my laptop (asus eeepc, running ubuntu 8.10) until a few days ago when it sudde

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-12-31 Thread aasen
okidoke, can do. from the command line (assuming you are in your home directory), do: sudo chown -R your_username_here .dbus -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-12-31 Thread tinkerer
aasen, i am a newbie. could you please tell me the commands i need to use to change the owner? much appreciated. tinkerer -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, whi

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-12-29 Thread aasen
I got the same error message because ~/.dbus/ and its contents were for some reason owned by root. Changing the owner resolved the problem. -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-11-03 Thread Grizzly
I have this (or something simila) on intrepid when trying to start nautilus remotely via ssh with X-forwarding. Don't know if it is a seperate bug (as it is on ibex) but anyhow I _have_ localhost set in my host file correctly. -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launch

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-09-10 Thread Ivan Razumov
If anyone still interested: I got this error recently (15 min ago), and by now have managed to resolve it. The problem was in my /etc/hosts file - it was missing "127.0.0.1 localhost" line. It was removed by "Network Settings" applet when I tried to add an alias "127.0.0.1 testhost" for my apache

Re: [Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-06-24 Thread robertgray
Don't know, nadavkav: I've not used Ubuntu for awhile. Regards, Robert On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:52 AM, nadavkav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have reported similar bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/233980 > > please see if it is duplicate or not ? > > --

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-06-23 Thread nadavkav
i have reported similar bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/233980 please see if it is duplicate or not ? -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-04-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
the bug has a collection of different issues, the message just state that it doesn't start as expected, everybody having the issue on hardy should open new bugs so we triage those properly and figure what the issue are there ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invali

Re: [Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew Conkling
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Andrea Ratto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like a synchronization problem to me. Did anyone have this on a > single core machine? Yeah. Also found a dupe: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/155164 > Thanks, I marked it as such. ** Attachment added:

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-04-12 Thread Andrea Ratto
Allright, I have this very same problem on three different machines. Lots of people have it. It's not a showstopper, but it's a scary thing to have in a stable release for this many months. Let's raise the priority, let's look into this. Looks like a synchronization problem to me. Did anyone ha

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2008-01-11 Thread The Marauder
I'had the same problem (I think) 2 time for 5 Gnome doesn't start properly. It's totaly random. We talk about this problem in a thread at the francophone ubuntu forum. http://forum.ubuntu- fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=172109 The message : "Il y a eu une erreur lors du démarrage du démon des préférence

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-11-11 Thread Jonathan Bisson
Got the same problem on two computers... * Laptop ACER Aspire 3104 (lspcis attached) * A desktop computer (homemade) This problem seems to occurs randomly. Restarting X corrects the problem. Nothing new about this bug ? TGZ file with (lspcis, dmesg, lsusb, uname, lsb_release...). Best regard

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-10-27 Thread Andrew Conkling
Also, see bug #140469. -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubu

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-07-07 Thread patate_fr
I guess my solution is similar to j. Tole, In my case, I had this error because my firewall guarddog doesn't keep its settings at boot, and was filtering that. You can verify it with "iptables -L". To reload the rules at startup, I had to add in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: if [ -x /etc/rc.firewall ]; th

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-06-24 Thread J. Tole
I was having this same problem as well on a friends computer I was setting up with ubuntu Feisty on x86_64. This had happened over to installs and usually after I had just installed a pile of software so I did not know what was causing the problem however I was getting the Original qoute that start

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-06-23 Thread Jack Knight
Same problem here, Ubu Feisty. /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID : Bus 004 Device 001: ID : Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Dev

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-06-23 Thread Jack Knight
Same problem here, Ubu Feisty. /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID : Bus 004 Device 001: ID : Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Dev

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-26 Thread Pausanias
I seem to be having a similar problem on an updated install of Feisty, except that my GNOME is never slow to load---it loads with about the same speed as in Edgy. Here is what happens. If I login normally after booting, all is fine. But say I boot up the computer and leave gdm running for a while.

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-22 Thread DrSketch
I'm having the same problem on a fresh install of Feisty.When I tried sudo ifup lo (like Shum), it reported that interface lo already configured. Pinging my localhost did not return any errors either. I have attached the requested information. Ignore the Microcode errors in dmesg, as I ha

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-20 Thread albamayo
hi everybody. I report the same behaviour with my laptop and desktop computers with Ubuntu 6.10, with and without internet conection. I haven't try derek's solution yet but I'll report about it. ** Attachment added: "outputs" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7373139/outputs -- Gnome settings ma

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-15 Thread Sebastien Bacher
you need to have a working loopack, that's not a GNOME bug -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROT

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-14 Thread Shum
Oh, oops. Forgot to run sudo ifup lo. Once that's done, my session is back to normal. Possibly gnome-settings-daemon seems to use it for communication; thus, a possible solution is to let NetworkManager manage lo. Just my $0.02 -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launch

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-14 Thread Shum
bug has been confirmed ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-14 Thread Shum
Also, trimming my /etc/network/interfaces to auto lo iface lo inet loopback does not make a difference. -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assign

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-14 Thread Shum
I can confirm that this bug occurs for me as well, except I do get my theme and background etc. I still have the long load time for gnome, and the same gnome-settings message. I haven't tried disabling by touchpad, however. Attached is the output of the commands requested above. ** Attachment add

Re: [Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-12 Thread robertgray
Greetings, Derek: I haven't upgraded to Feisty yet; and my "ping localhost" works. My loopback device is fine. Yet, my system still "hangs" when I try to access the GNOME Menu on occasion. Thanks; and regards, Robert On 4/11/07, DerekBuranen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the real culpri

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-04-11 Thread DerekBuranen
Here's the real culprit. *ping localhost This command wasn't working. Seems when I upgraded to Feisty and when I was setting a static IP, I commented EVERYTHING in /etc/network/interfaces. This is not good as the 'lo' or loopback device is needed. I uncommented auto lo and the iface line for

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-03-17 Thread Sebastien Bacher
not marking confirmed, there is not enough information and there is no other user who confirmed having the bug ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Confirmed => Unconfirmed -- Gnome settings manag

[Bug 84876] Re: Gnome settings manager error to start desktop

2007-03-12 Thread Brian Murray
** Changed in: Ubuntu Sourcepackagename: None => control-center Assignee: Brian Murray => (unassigned) Status: Needs Info => Confirmed -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://launchpad.net/bugs/84876 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:/