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Re: Constantly Switching Gnome Theme on Fresh Install



There is a known bug in Gstreamer that only affects non-Altivec PowerPC machines.  You need to get upgraded libvisual packages from here:

http://people.debian.org/~sjoerd/libvisual/

This worked for me.

regards,

Ananda



On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:14:17 +1300
Torrance <torrance123@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've just done a fresh install of Debian Etch from a daily build net- 
> install cd image on an iMac DV SE (g3, graphite), and everything is  
> working fine except that the gnome theme is constantly changing  
> between the one I have it set to and and old-looking theme. It looks  
> as though there is some conflict between theme settings.
> 
> After a while, I received this error:
> 
> ____________________________________________
> 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:
> 
> System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : 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.
> ______________________________________________
> 
> So what's going on? It's bringing my system to a halt. Not sure if  
> its a ppc-specific issue or not.
> 
> Torrance
> 
> 
> 
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