summary: similar problem here. cannot start GNOME or Beryl sessions on the machines, splash screen hangs on Metacity.
Failsafe GNOME will boot, but kicks the above warning: first error: "Unable to determine the address of the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help)" if i try to launch Sound preferences, i get a second error: second error: "Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'. Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager." if i then try to run gnome-settings-daemon in the console, i get a third error: third error: (gnome-settings-daemon:6669): GSwitchIt-WARNING **: Unable to connect to dbus: Unable to determine the address of the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help) ** (gnome-settings-daemon:6669): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object: assertion `connection != NULL' failed ** (gnome-settings-daemon:6669): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed ** (gnome-settings-daemon:6669): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed ** (bug-buddy:6675): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder solutions tried so far: 1. apt-get --reinstall install dbus beryl metacity (no effect) 2. commenting out IPv6 lines in host file (no effect) 3. disabling ESD in sound settings (no effect) 4. checked /etc/network/interfaces (nothing there that shouldn't be) platform: edgy, with beryl installed and running successfully for several days (until this error) versions: dbus - 0.93-0ubuntu3 metacity - 2.16.3-0ubuntu beryl - 0.1.9999.2~0be caused by: unclear. have been running, as mentioned, beryl but to date had virtually no problems - and none seemingly related to this. error occured after a fresh reboot with no new packages installed (AFAIK). looks to me like everything traces back to dbus, but i'm no expert. any help appreciated. i'm functional in GNOME Failsafe, but not loving it. -- gnome-settings-daemon crashes at login https://launchpad.net/bugs/61381 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
