Re: Starting GNOME desktop problem

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:13, Stephen Liu wrote:
you could try to:

*) log out of X
*) on the console remove .gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock and .gconfd/lock
in your home-directory
*) remove orbit-$USER from /tmp

works for me

yours 
josef

> Hi all folks,
> 
> RH8.0
> =====
> 
> I encounter problem in starting GNOME desktop with following warning
> popup
> 
> "There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
> Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
> correctly.
> The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
> The last error message was:
> Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time"
> 
> All background pictures disappear.  Kindly advise how to fix it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> B.R.
> Stephen Liu
> 
> 
> 
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