On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Richard Shaw <<a href="mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com">hobbes1069@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I just logged into my F9 laptop after some recent updates I got an error "Error Starting Gnome Settings Daemon". Relogging nor rebooting helped. I tried moving my .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome2 directories and letting gnome recreate them but it didn't help. I searched the web but most everything I found was from 2006 or earlier. Anyone else having this problem or have suggestions? I did update with the new rpmfusion repo but not sure if that's the cause. I reviewed my yum.log but none of the packages that updated on that day jumped out at me. BTW, what is the name of the executable or the Gnome Settings daemon? I was expecting something like gnome-settings but didn't find anything like that. Richard </blockquote></div> Thanks to those who responded, but it turns out that the culprit was the gstreamer-ffmpeg package from rpmfusion. It provides a gstreamer plugin that gnome-settings-daemon tries to load. For posterity, here's the output from gnome-settings-daemon when the gstreamer-ffmpeg package is installed: CRTC 260 Timestamp: 830046 Output 261 Timestamp: 830046 CRTC 260 Timestamp: 830046 Output 261 Timestamp: 830046 Shutdown failed or nothing to shut down. [1226111713,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file: /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so Please either: - remove it and restart. - run with --gst-disable-segtrap and debug. [1226111713,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the applicationCould not initialize GStreamer: Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal --- As you can see it segfaults on the file /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so. I did a yum erase on the package and it doesn't appear that there are any packages that depend on it. So far so good... Thanks, Richard