gnome/gdm hosed gnome-settings-daemon, how to troubleshoot ?

[Mark Palmer <bikerx1969 yahoo com>]

I have had gnome 2.6 working fine, in fact I have
never had a really problem with it. 

I am using gentoo as my linux distro

I recently upgraded to GCC-3.4.4, glib-2.4.5 and
gcc-config-1.3.6-r1 (since gnome stop working, but
this may be unrelated)

Since then I can no longer log into gnome from gdm, 

gnome either freezes or presents the following
message: 

gnome-setting-daemon has unexcepting quit. 

So far in attempt to fix the problem I have, 

1. reverted back to original versions of gcc-3.3.3,
glib-2.4.5 and gcc-config back to the previos
versions. 

2. tried logging in with a different user 

3. tried to find a troubleshooting site for gdm (no
luck) 

I haven't had much success. 

How ever I was able to find the following in these log
files: 

1. messages 

Code: 
Sep  4 21:34:01 hostname (squareht-2484): starting
(version 2.6.2), pid 2484 user 'squareht' 
Sep  4 21:34:01 hostname (squareht-2484): Resolved
address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory"
to a read-only config source at position 0 
Sep  4 21:34:01 hostname (squareht-2484): Resolved
address "xml:readwrite:/home/squareht/.gconf" to a
writable config source at position 1 
Sep  4 21:34:01 hostname (squareht-2484): Resolved
address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults"
to a read-only config source at position 2 
Sep  4 21:34:01 hostname (squareht-2490): iid
OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type 
Sep  4 21:34:01 racerx (squareht-2490): invalid
character '#' in iid
'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars' 


in xsessions-error 

these are some of the errors that I am seeing 

Code: 
(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file
gnome-vfs-cancellable-ops.c: line 176
(gnome_vfs_get_file_info_uri_cancellable): assertion
`uri != NULL' failed 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file
gnome-vfs-uri.c: line 916 (gnome_vfs_uri_unref):
assertion `uri != NULL' failed 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file
gnome-vfs-cancellable-ops.c: line 176
(gnome_vfs_get_file_info_uri_cancellable): assertion
`uri != NULL' failed 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file
gnome-vfs-uri.c: line 916 (gnome_vfs_uri_unref):
assertion `uri != NULL' failed 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

(gnome-panel:2763): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot
load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
(libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory) 

by the way `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so'
does exist. 

I have made some progress if you could call it that
:-)

I tried reinstalling gnome-vfs, and after several
attempts I was able to log-in but i couldn't see the
background, after many many attempts of recomiling and
fiddling one one occasion I launched natilus which
restore my background.

However this as not fixed the issue completely,
because after a reboot, the problem returns, if I
recompile gnome-vfs and reboot several more times I
can eventually log in and some of the time I can get
my background to come up.

So right now the machine is not really useable.

Any suggested troubleshooting would be appreciated.

As I am nowing having to use windows create this
message. 



		
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