[Novalug] Odd Gnome launching message box

[DonJr]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:04 -0400, Ed James wrote:
> I've been getting this weird box popping up when I bring up Gnome:
> 
>     - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>     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:
> 
>     Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session.
> 
>     GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time
>     you log in.
>     - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> Anyone seen and dealt with this before (implicitly asking wot u
> did to fix it)?
> 
> Or, gratefully accepted would be various bits and pieces of info
> as to what the various parts of the above messages mean.  Ie,
> what "A" thing needs to be up and running for the "B" thing to
> work, etc.  Tried a bit of Googling, but didn't find answers,
> just questions.
> 
> adTHANKSvance,
> Ed James

One possible way to look for an answer is to try starting it from an
X-term and see what it reports:
 IE
 $ /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/gnome-session

Other places to look would be:
   ~/.xsession-errors
   /var/log/Xorg.0.log
   /var/log/user.log
   /var/log/message.log

What else is or isn't running:
  $ ps xua | grep dbus

Is any of the following running on not:
  /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system     {user (105)???}

dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session
   {your userID}


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