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    Exclamation HELP HELP gnome-settings-daemon failed

    I just recently setup my dual display and after a while of using both screens, the gnome-settings-daemon failed and reverted to some ugly theme..

    Here is the output from the terminal:
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    jared@4t0m1c_w07f:~$ gnome-settings-daemon 
    
    ** (gnome-settings-daemon:7482): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon
    
    ** (gnome-settings-daemon:7482): WARNING **: Could not acquire name
    jared@4t0m1c_w07f:~$
    Please HELP!
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    Re: HELP HELP gnome-settings-daemon failed

    Look in your /etc/hosts file.

    If you see :

    127.0.0.1 localhost
    127.0.1.1 my_name

    Change it to :

    127.0.0.1 localhost my_name


    I know, this is pure non-sense but it seems to fix the issue.

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    Re: HELP HELP gnome-settings-daemon failed

    Quote Originally Posted by ploum View Post
    Look in your /etc/hosts file.

    If you see :

    127.0.0.1 localhost
    127.0.1.1 my_name

    Change it to :

    127.0.0.1 localhost my_name


    I know, this is pure non-sense but it seems to fix the issue.
    Wow this is massive. How on earth did you get to this solution? I'm impressed!!
    By the way, I another thing to do to fix some screwed up and missing gnome files like when I mistakenly deleted gnome.panel, is:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop
    This occurred to me when I wanted to completely remove evolution from my ubuntu box

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    Re: HELP HELP gnome-settings-daemon failed

    Quote Originally Posted by ploum View Post
    Look in your /etc/hosts file.

    If you see :

    127.0.0.1 localhost
    127.0.1.1 my_name

    Change it to :

    127.0.0.1 localhost my_name


    I know, this is pure non-sense but it seems to fix the issue.
    Ughh.. how do I get this fix to stay? I was having a similar issue (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592561) with gnome-settings-daemon and tried this as a possible fix. I wasn't getting any error and g-s-d startup but my hosts looked similar to what you posted so I tried it anyway.

    Long story short, network manager keeps partially undoing the changes I make and partially setting it back to the way I was before the change, NOW I get the error that you post but its my own doing.

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    Re: HELP HELP gnome-settings-daemon failed

    NM.. I figured it out. Only g-s-d's that I try to open after the first one start throw the error. If the one I am starting will be the first or only one to run, then it runs with no errors at all.

    At least I'm back to where I started now. Theming still isn't working but no hosts file related errors.

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    Re: HELP HELP gnome-settings-daemon failed

    Quote Originally Posted by getut View Post
    Long story short, network manager keeps partially undoing the changes I make and partially setting it back to the way I was before the change, NOW I get the error that you post but its my own doing.
    Have you tried this
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop
    I can't explain what has network manager got to do with your /etc/hosts file.
    We need more information about your error.
    Thanks

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