Olaf Grüttner wrote these words on 02/01/06 14:58 CST:

> I have problems running gnome-2.12. When gnome starts there is a message 
> about "gnome settings daemon not running ..."
> My menues contain just one application even though I installed just about 
> everything.
> Logging out is not possible, xscreensaver doesn't react. 
> 
> A long the way I must have missed something, I need some hint where to look.

Well, that's why the book says "you can expect to have to build GNOME
more than once to get it right". :-)


> I have added to /etc/profile:
> 
> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gnome-2.12/bin
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/gnome-2.12/lib/pkgconfig
> export GNOME_LIBCONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib:/opt/gnome-2.12/lib
> export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/gnome/xdg

I don't know why you didn't mention setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable.
It says to do it in the instructions of at least two packages you had
to install. You also need to set the LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH variable.


> How can I find out step by step which program / package / configuration I 
> missed ?
> I have read and tried several clues from the mailing list. 

I'm not sure *anyone* will be able to determine "step by step" what
you did wrong.


> I have installed gnome from an chroot environment if that is important.

I've never done that, so I cannot speak bad or good about it.

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