Hey Marc & Jordan I confirm. when running hardy clean installation and also disabling sound support as not needed and XRandR as well, I get quite the same output as you guys. Take a look below. I also did try to make the workaround with touching the gnome-session. nothing helped me for now.
** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Successfully connected to D-Bus ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Starting settings manager ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Loading settings plugins from dir: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/ (...) ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Plugin xrandr: inactive (...) ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Starting sound manager exec: 1: /usr/bin/pulseaudio: not found ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsManager: emitting plugin-activated sound (...) ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Activating keyboard plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Starting keyboard manager ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available, no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsManager: emitting plugin-activated keyboard ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Plugin keyboard: active (...) ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Starting a11y_keyboard manager ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): WARNING **: Unable to start a11y_keyboard manager: XKB functionality is disabled. ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsManager: emitting plugin-activated a11y-keyboard ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Plugin a11y-keyboard: active ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: GnomeSettingsModule 0x6329e0 initialising ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Loading /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libmouse.so ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Registering GsdMousePlugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Creating object of type GsdMousePlugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: GsdMousePlugin initializing ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Activating mouse plugin ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8997): DEBUG: Starting mouse manager Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":1.0". Shutdown failed or nothing to shut down. Segmentation fault -- Error starting gnome-settings-daemon while logged in via vnc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239342 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs