Gnome won't start. (Settings manager fails to load)

FcukThisGame · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 776 Location: /lost+found

I've installed gnome 2.14.2 with the proper useflags, and I boot it from GDM, and the little splash theme comes up (the progress icons don't ever show up...) and then it gives me an error message basically saying the settings manager (daemon maybe?) failed to load.

Is there a quick fix for this?
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FcukThisGame · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 776 Location: /lost+found

dopey · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 235

i've seen this when using the evdev mouse driver.
supposedly it was fixed in gnome 2.12 control-center, but i'm still seeing it in 2.14.2. Switched to mouse driver and the problem went away.

FcukThisGame · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 776 Location: /lost+found

dopey · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 235

Switched from
Driver "evdev"
to
Driver "mouse"

and changed the "Device" option to point to /dev/input/mice instead of the event driver node I was using.

FYI,
gnome bug filed by someone: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346928