There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon
Are you ubuntu user?
Have you ever experienced “There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon” pop up problem when you logged in?After few weeks I wasted my time seeking a solution to my ubuntu…There were several posts on the web but none of it could get me my Ubuntu working like normal. What i suspect is that this is a very generic error message and this could come so many ways.
What happened to me was…whenever I logged in to my personal computer with ubuntu installed on it, Its take a few minutes to log in to the desktop, and a pop up message window showing me “There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon”.
Few articles on the web says, probably it caused by the crashes session or gnome application. and some says it caused by the networking problem…after struggling to solved the problem, I managed to find the actual caused…it was networking problem…yes…networking…~!
First what I did is…
Repair the entries in the /etc/network/interfaces. This is because of the fact that interfaces ‘lo’ or ‘localhost’ was not configured in /etc/network/intefaces.
Please check the command
#ifup lo
When i did it i got the error message,
Ignoring unknown interface lo=lo
If you get this error make sure that you make sure that you configure your interface settings in your /etc/network/interfces file correctly before proceeding any further.
This clearly shows that the interface for lo is not configured.
The solution is to feed in entries in /etc/network/interfaces for localhost and loopback.
So there would be two configuration in your /etc/network/interfaces.
One is the configuration for localhost/loopback interface and other is your wireless broadband.
It should look like this.
#vi /etc/network/interfaces
# The primary network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# Wireless interface
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-key 123123123123
wireless-essid Arun
The next step is to provide values in the hosts configuration file.
azam@poseidon:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost lo poseidon
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
192.168.0.1 poseidon
127.0.1.1 poseidon
And next, check whether lo is pingable.
azam@poseidon:~$ ping lo
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.040 ms
If the ping does not work,bringup the lo interface manually
#ifup lo
Restart the networking settings
azam@poseidon:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
I hope this post will help you solve the same problem…~!
Thanks,
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