[WORKAROUND] After update: gnome-settings-daemon can't find dbus?

Question

Hey all,
first of all, the problem started after the update yesterday. At the moment, my system is up-to-date without any testing packages. My dbus is started in /etc/rc.conf by the entry of hal. It certainly runs according to `ps ax`. But now after login to gnome it takes some minutes (which is longer than usual) and then the following message shows up:
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.
The last error message was:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-sxaWRBhjCI: Connection refused
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
The funny thing is, that /tmp/dbus-sxaWRBhjCI does not exist in /tmp, see here:
andi@hbar> ll /tmp
total 240K
drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 196K 2008-10-20 13:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4.0K 2008-10-02 17:37 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2008-10-20 13:49 hsperfdata_root/
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4.0K 2008-10-20 13:50 .ICE-unix/
drwx------ 2 andi users 4.0K 2008-10-20 13:50 keyring-LKXmSd/
drwx------ 2 andi users 4.0K 2008-10-20 13:52 orbit-andi/
drwx------ 2 nobody gdm 4.0K 1970-01-01 01:00 orbit-nobody/
drwx------ 2 andi users 4.0K 2008-10-20 13:49 ssh-ZYPRoS6800/
drwx------ 2 andi users 4.0K 2008-10-20 13:50 virtual-andi.agPvKH/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 2008-10-20 13:49 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4.0K 2008-10-20 13:49 .X11-unix/
My gnome session starts anyway but e.g. the panel looks in default style. The funniest thing is in the end, that I can start gnome-settings-daemon in terminal (after gnome started) and everything starts looking as it was. See here:
andi@hbar> gnome-settings-daemon ~
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7538): WARNING **: libgnomekbd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7538): WARNING **: Cannot load plugin 'Keyboard' since file '/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libkeyboard.so' cannot be read.
** (gnome-settings-daemon:7538): WARNING **: Error activating plugin 'Keyboard'
xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 220 overrides entry on line 150
xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 226 overrides entry on line 191
xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 232 overrides entry on line 151
xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 238 overrides entry on line 192
Can anyone help me in fixing this? Or does anyone experiencing the same problem? Thanks in advance.
Edit: I tried the gnome-session-daemon from testing (and its dependencies), but this caused that gnome did not start at all!
Last edited by aneiser (2008-10-20 16:58:37)

Answer 1

same problem...
Der Konfigurationsserver konnte nicht kontaktiert werden; mögliche Fehlerquellen sind, dass TCP/IP für ORBit nicht aktiviert ist oder auf Grund eines Systemabsturzes alte NFS-Sperren gesetzt sind. Unter http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ erhalten Sie weitere Informationen (Details -  1: Verbindung zur Sitzung konnte nicht abgerufen werden: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-GQ8eIpBcxB: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt)
Beim Starten des GNOME-Einstellungsdämons ist ein Fehler aufgetreten.
Möglicherweise funktionieren einige Dinge, wie z.B. Themen, Klänge oder Hintergrundeinstellungen nicht korrekt.
Die letzte Fehlermeldung war:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-KmOC2nTOQD: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt
Beim nächsten Anmelden wird GNOME weiterhin versuchen, den Einstellungsdämon neu zu starten
Last edited by msart2k (2008-10-20 15:38:42)