[Bug 61381] Re: gnome-settings-daemon crashes at login

[Peter Dinges]

Inspired by kaptengu and Yerakon's comments, I started with a clean
/etc/hosts file (as there was an error message that the local host could
not be resolved). I also made sure  that the loopback network interface
is loaded, as it was omitted in /etc/networking/interfaces. That did the
trick for me; gnome comes up instantly.

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost hostname
127.0.1.1 hostname

fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts


/etc/network/interfaces:
iface lo inet loopback
auto lo

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Use 'ifconfig' to get a list of configured network devices. To set up
the loopback device after booting, run 'sudo ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up'.

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gnome-settings-daemon crashes at login
https://launchpad.net/bugs/61381