Failed to acquire org.mate.SettingsDaemon

I switched from ubuntu-desktop to ubuntu-mate-desktop knowing that there would be problems in the end. So far I only have one. And that’s that my mate-settings-daemon doesn’t start.

This is the message that I receive:

** (mate-settings-daemon:6403): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.mate.SettingsDaemon

** (mate-settings-daemon:6403): WARNING **: Could not acquire name

The only report that I could find was a person that used a custom kernel, which I do not. (link)

If someone could tell me where to search, I would be grateful.

I'm running an Ubuntu 16.04 install that I added MATE desktop when gnome flash-back wasn't behaving for me. Here's a screen capture from synaptic that might help you

and one more

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Sadly, I have all of them (checked twice) installed. And many more actually.

Is your autostart file in place?

/etc/xdg/autostart/mate-setting-daemon.desktop

The last four lines should read…

OnlyShowIn=MATE;
X-MATE-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-MATE-Autostart-Notify=true
X-MATE-AutoRestart=true

Hi,

have you tried changing your software sources download location and run an update again?:

The last 5 lines of my .desktop file contain:

Exec=/usr/bin/mate-settings-daemon
OnlyShowIn=MATE;
X-MATE-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-MATE-Autostart-Notify=true
X-MATE-AutoRestart=true

So I guess that’s not the problem :frowning:

I don’t see how changing the server would resolve this issue. I did change it, but no effect.

I looked some more at the update guide from @wolfman. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and a reboot resolved the issue! Thank you guys for helping me out.

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