I've got this problem severals times, sometimes it disappears magically, sometimes i have to delete all my gnome settings ( ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd, ~/.gnome ).
Situation : - current cooker ( 2.4.22-10mdk, GConf-1.0.9-11mdk, GConf2-2.4.0.1-1mdk, nfs-utils-clients-1.0.5-1mdk, kdebase-3.1.92-2mdk, metacity-2.6.1-1mdk ) - home on a NFS share ( vers=3, tcp, rsize=8192, wsize=8192, nosuid, soft, intr, timeo=600 ) - NFS server = mdk 9.1 + soft RAID1 ( ext3 partition ) One more time again, I'm facing this "Gnome n'a pu d�marrer le d�mon de pr�f�rence. Pour l'instant il sera d�sactiv� et vous n'aurez pas acc�s aux th�mes, sons ... ) -> Gnome was unable to launch gnome preferences daemon. So i don't have theme ( ugly default one for style, color, theme, nautilus icons ), can't launch some applets ( windows list/systray, desktop switcher ) because of an OAFIID cryptic error ... And i have nothing interesting in ~/.xsession-errors This is not a locking problem on my nfs partition as I don't have the message saying that gconfd had problem locking some files. It's incredible how easily I can break gnome ( nfs bugs -> gconfd locking problem whereas kde works like a charm, ???? -> gnome preferences daemon not starting ). So am I the only one ? someone know a better way to solve this problem than deleting all my prefs ... ? --- Il y a beaucoup de choses que nous aimerions jeter si nous n'avions pas peur que d'autres les ramassent. Oscar Wilde
