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regarding gnome-settings-daemon: crashes when I open Iceweasel in a
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.22.2.1-2
Severity: normal
When I open Iceweasel, gnome-settings-daemon crashes. This happens irrelevant
of the VNC viewer (tried latest stable UltraVNC and TightVNC from a Windows XP
box, via SSH tunnel). There is no crash when I other apps (eg. gnome-terminal,
gedit).
When gnome-settings-daemon dies, I see an error dialog with the following text:
"There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, sugh as
themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings
Daemon restarted too many times. GNOME will try to restart the Settings Daemon
next time you log in."
Here is a snippet from ~/.xsession-errors:
** (gnome-settings-daemon:16836): WARNING **: Failed to open file
'/etc/gnome/config/General.ad': No such file or directory
The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 2476 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
Window manager warning: from event callback
** (gnome-panel:16689): WARNING **: Failed to authenticate with GDM
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-7 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.6.4-7 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1+lenny1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.22.3-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomekbd2 2.22.0-1 GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgstreamer-plugins-bas 0.10.19-2 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.19-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notification0 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libxi6 2:1.1.4-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxklavier12 3.5-2 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.3-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.
gnome-settings-daemon suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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