On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 08:35 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 02:50:06PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 20:16 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:58:11AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 18:39 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:47:40AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 17:21 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I just upgraded from 2.26 to 2.26.1, and I'm finding that my personal
> > > > > > > UI preferences are not recognised anymore. When I try to run
> > > > > > > "gnome-mouse-properties", it comes back with a dialog box stating:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > "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."
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > However, a quick "ps ax" reveals a recently started
> > > > > > > gnome-settings-daemon. Keyboard settings are similarly affected.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do you have a custom pulseaudio configuration?
> > > > >
> > > > > Nope. Just what is installed out of ports. I do notice that the
> > > > > process hangs around even after I logout.
> > > >
> > > > Post your default.pa file.
> > >
> > > Attached. There's no difference from the default.pa-dist.
> > >
> > > > If you kill all the pulseaudio process, then run:
> > > >
> > > > pulseaudio -D
> > > >
> > > > Does gnome-settings-daemon start properly?
> > >
> > > As I was killing the pulseaudio processes, the screen blinked, and
> > > my mouse and keyboard preferences suddenly took effect.
> > >
> > > At least I now have a workaround...
> >
> > On what version of FreeBSD are you running?
>
> FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 3 08:10:13 NZDT 2009 root@osiris.chen.org.nz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OSIRIS
I'm running on:
FreeBSD shumai.marcuscom.com 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #46:
Sat Apr 18 15:13:13 EDT 2009
marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com:/build/obj/build/src/sys/SHUMAI i386
And pulseaudio works fine. Can you upgrade to the latest -STABLE, and
see if the problem goes away?
Joe
>
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