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 -- 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 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs