On 06/01/12 09:43, John MM wrote:
So how do we figure out why it isn't running?
That's a more difficult question to answer. :) I think there are a couple of options:
By running it in a terminal, it may be more obvious when it's actually crashed. At least you should get some output on the terminal when it does, and then you can file a bug using "apport-bug indicator-session".
Another alternative is to enable apport [0] to automatically help with bug submissions when an application crashes - even the ones that happen when you first boot up and login, so if gnome-settings-daemon is being started but crashing, this will catch it.
You may discover that there is already a bug raised that addresses this, in which case you should just select the "This affects me too" option and optionally subscribe to updates. If not, then you should just describe then symptoms you're seeing in the bug report. Either way, this will improve your odds of getting a clueful developer on the case who will probably get to the bottom of the problem fairly quickly. Be aware, however, that enabling apport system-wide will cause it to prompt you to raise bug reports any time anything crashes - so you may want to disable it after you've raised this particular bug. :)
In my case, I'm running the Ubuntu One nightlies PPA and there was a problem in the ubuntuone-client-gnome package which was causing gnome-session-daemon to crash. I would never have made the link, but I filed a report and was directed to #ubuntu-desktop on Freenode where a couple of people very quickly zeroed in on the problem and then looked at a previous bug report I'd raised and made the connection.
HTH, JT [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#How_to_enable_apport -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- James Tait, BSc | xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate | Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407 ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
