On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just logged into my F9 laptop after some recent updates I got an
error
"Error Starting Gnome Settings Daemon". Relogging nor rebooting helped. I
tried moving my .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome2 directories and letting gnome
recreate them but it didn't help.
I searched the web but most everything I found was from 2006 or earlier.
Anyone else having this problem or have suggestions?
I did update with the new rpmfusion repo but not sure if that's the cause.
I reviewed my yum.log but none of the packages that updated on that day
jumped out at me.
BTW, what is the name of the executable or the Gnome Settings daemon? I was
expecting something like gnome-settings but didn't find anything like that.
Richard
Thanks to those who responded, but it turns out that the culprit was the
gstreamer-ffmpeg package from rpmfusion. It provides a gstreamer plugin that
gnome-settings-daemon tries to load.
For posterity, here's the output from gnome-settings-daemon when the
gstreamer-ffmpeg package is installed:
CRTC 260 Timestamp: 830046
Output 261 Timestamp: 830046
CRTC 260 Timestamp: 830046
Output 261 Timestamp: 830046
Shutdown failed or nothing to shut down.
[1226111713,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does
not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application
ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file:
/usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so
Please either:
- remove it and restart.
- run with --gst-disable-segtrap and debug.
[1226111713,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does
not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the
applicationCould not initialize GStreamer: Error re-scanning registry ,
child terminated by signal
---
As you can see it segfaults on the file
/usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so. I did a yum erase on the package
and it doesn't appear that there are any packages that depend on it. So far
so good...
Thanks,
Richard