Gnome-settings-daemon problem under gnome 2.18

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Trigve Siver wrote:
> Hi,
> I have update gnome to gnome 2.18. I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg 7.2 with X11BASE set to /usr/local. When I try to log in gnome the message window with this message popup:
> 
> 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:
> 
> Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
> 
> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
> 
> output from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Apr 18 12:17:33 pentium4 seahorse-agent[1677]: DNS-SD initialization failed: Dae
> mon not running
> Apr 18 12:17:33 pentium4 seahorse-agent[1677]: Failed to send buffer
> Apr 18 12:17:33 pentium4 seahorse-agent[1677]: Failed to send buffer

This points to D-BUS and avahi not running on your system.  Try adding
either:

gnome_enable="YES"

or

dbus_enable="YES"
avahi_daemon_enable="YES"
avahi_dnsconfd_enable="YES"

to /etc/rc.conf, then reboot.

If you still get problems starting g-s-d, try running it manually from
the command line (/usr/local/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon) after you login.

Joe

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