Error starting Gnome Settings Daemon?

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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?

It could be a permissions issue. Make sure that all of your /home files 
are readable and writeable by you:

chmod -R u+rw /home/richard

Just a thought.

- Mike