Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to
2.24.

Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently).
This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login,
I can get in and work, but whenever I try
system>preferences>appearance
I get a dialog box saying that gnome-settings-setting cannot be started.

Although I can get to the appearance dialog, various fonts are too big
and can't be changed.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks,
allan

At Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:32:44 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:

> Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to
> 2.24.
>
> Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently).
> This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login,
> I can get in and work, but whenever I try
> system>preferences>appearance
> I get a dialog box saying that gnome-settings-setting cannot be started.
>
> Although I can get to the appearance dialog, various fonts are too big
> and can't be changed.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

For anyone bitten by this a workaround is in this bug
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256016

allan