[KLUG Members] RH 8.0 and Gnome Daemon

[Adam Williams]

>>Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon
>>GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in."
>>I am able to log in okay, but the desktop is blank (no background) and
>>some apps are disabled.
>Is the control-center RPM installed?  The installer seems to miss this
>occasionally in the upgrade from GNOME 1.x to GNOME 2.x, and this
>manifests itself just as you describe.
>[awilliam@estate1 awilliam]$ rpm -q control-center
>control-center-2.0.1-8
>Installing the RPM and restarting GNOME should make this go away. 
>Logout of X,  you don't have to kill X, just don't be running GNOME. 
>rpm -Uvh {path here}/control-center.... then do a oaf-slay;bonobo-slay
>and try logging into GNOME again.

Also doesn't hurt to "rm -fR /tmp/orbit-*" after the slays to clean out
the Bonobo temporary files for all the users.  That should give you a
pretty clean slate.

I don't know if the "rm -fR /tmp/orbit-*" things still actually helps as
all the dangling temp file issues were fixed in gconf-2,  but it can't
hurt.  Don't do it with users logged into GNOME.