I spoke too soon in declaring the bug squashed. I had some trouble printing a document, fiddled with CUPS, tried to see the print queue via System->Administration->Printing, and then saw my theme revert to the default theme.
The printer I was using is a network printer, and it worked fine this morning. Between then and the failure to work, there were no major changes to my system. I'm still using the regular gnome panel instead of Docky, and I haven't re-installed the sun-java6-plugin package that I first thought was the source of the problem. I just posted a little more detail in the other thread (the link is in posts #9 and #10 ITT), but basically, I'm thinking this could be due to using older hardware. I'm using a 5 year-old Sony Vaio PCG-K45 with 3.2 GHz P4 and 1 Gb of RAM. Has anyone seen this bug on a computer that was built within the last year? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588155 Title: randomly gnome-settings-daemon fails to start -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
