I can confirm this too. Today it happened to my gutsy installation for the first time. Logging out and then in again seems to solve the problem, but that's really annoying.
After restarting the computer the message reappears. -- There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185157 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gnome-control-center in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs