Fail to start Gnome desktop

[Stephen Liu <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi all folks,

Debian (Testing/Unstable - 3.0)

GNOME can login but its desktop fails to start with following warning;

ERROR
There was an error starting the GNOME_Settings Daemon

Some things such as Themes, sounds or background settings may not work 
correctly

The Setting Daemon restarted too many times

The last error message was
Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_Setting Daemon'
GNOME will still try to restart the Setting Daemon
next time your login
<close>

Clicked <close>

I can start Debian applications from there such as
- Mozilla 1.0.0
- Kmail
- OpenOffice Write
etc.

Kindly advise where can I edit the Settings to start GNOME desktop

(Remark: KDE desktop can be started without problem)

TIA

Happen New Year 2004 and B.R.
Stephen Liu