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07-16-2013

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vnc viewer presents black screen along with GNOME settings daemon errors.

Hello folks,

I'm remotely connecting through VNC to two machines, each running Red Hat 5.9, from mine which is running Windows 7. Both connections were working well before. However, now one of the machines only gives me a black screen, with a pop up that says:

"There was an error starting GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The last error message was: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."

I've searched all over the net for a solution to no avail. One thing I tried was deleting the following files in hopes of resetting my gnome environment but this did not help either.

Files: /tmp/orbit-<user>, .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome, .gnome2 and .metacity.

I have attached the two vncviewer log files, one from the connection that still works well and the other from the one that gives me the above errors, named bad and good respectively.

I'm new to the forum so I apologize if this is not the most adequate forum section for my problem or if I omitted any relevant files or debug information. I would greatly appreciate any help you can send my way.

Miguel.

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gnome-control-center

gnome-control-center(1) 					   User Commands					   gnome-control-center(1)

NAME

       gnome-control-center, gnome-desktop-prefs - configure desktop preferences

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-control-center [gnome-std-options] [--noshell]

DESCRIPTION

       Desktop	Preferences allows you to configure the GNOME desktop. If  Nautilus is running, gnome-control-center will open up a new window and
       display all your preference tools. If Nautilus is not running, gnome-control-center will display a simple interface allowing you to  select
       the  preference tool to run. There are 3 categories of preference tools: Basic, Advanced, and Accessibility.  Double-click on the tool that
       you require and the dialog for the tool will be displayed.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --noshell       Do not display the Desktop Preferences in Nautilus. This is not a supported interface.

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching Desktop Preferences

       example% gnome-control-center

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-control-cExecutable for Desktop Preferences interface

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	     ATTRIBUTE VALUE	    |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-desktop-preferences |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			    |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Preference Tools Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gnome-background-properties(1), gnome-font-properties(1),  gnome-keyboard-properties(1),  gnome-keybinding-properties(1),  gnome-ui-proper-
       ties(1),  gnome-mouse-properties(1),  gnome-network-preferences(1),  gnome-sound-properties(1), gnome-theme-properties(1), metacity-proper-
       ties(1), gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties(1), cddb-slave2-properties(1), gnome-file-types-properties(1), gnome-panel-preferences(1),
       gnome-default-applications-properties(1), gnome-session-properties(1), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    2 Oct 2003						   gnome-control-center(1)