Had the same problem just now after chmod ing my home dir, would take 5min or so to log in, before giving me the error above.
Going into preferences>sound>sounds and disabling ESD solved it. -- gnome-settings-daemon crashes at login https://launchpad.net/bugs/61381 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
