FC3T1 Gnome Errors

[Mike Klinke]

After downloading the latest batches of updated files yesterday and 
today I find that I'm getting error messages from the "Gnome Settings 
Daemon" whenever I boot up into FC3T1 as follows:

========== Error Message Box ====== 
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, 
such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work 
correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last 
error message was:

Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log 
in.
==========

>From the system.log:

--------- /var/log/messages --------
Aug  2 20:12:22 localhost gconfd (root-2627): starting (version 
2.6.0), pid 2627 user 'root'
Aug  2 20:12:23 localhost gconfd (root-2627): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config 
source atposition 0
Aug  2 20:12:23 localhost gconfd (root-2627): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 
1
Aug  2 20:12:23 localhost gconfd (root-2627): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config 
source at position 2
---------

and indeed, changing themes ultimately led to the following error 
messages:

Changing to bluecurve:

========== Error Message Boxes (2) ======
The Application "wnck-applet" has quit unexpectedly.

You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it.  
Or you
can restart the application right now.

The "Window List" applet appears to have died unexpectedly.

Do you want to reload this applet?

(If you choose not to reload it at this time you can always add it by 
right
clicking on the panel and clicking on the "Add to Panel" submenu)

=========
Also an error box concerning "window switcher" with same verbage as 
above
=========

If I simply log out and log back in, I don't get the initial error but 
the system log does contain:


--------- /var/log/messages --------
Aug  2 21:26:30 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[2518]: session opened for user 
root by (uid=0)
Aug  2 21:26:31 localhost gconfd (root-2891): starting (version 
2.6.0), pid 2891 user 'root'
Aug  2 21:26:31 localhost gconfd (root-2891): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config 
source at position 0
Aug  2 21:26:31 localhost gconfd (root-2891): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 
1
Aug  2 21:26:31 localhost gconfd (root-2891): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config 
source at position 2
Aug  2 21:26:31 localhost bonobo-activation-server (root-2902): iid 
OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type
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Anyone else seeing this?

Regards,  Mike Klinke