I can confirm this bug on my system as well. My Ubuntu-Version: 10.10 Hardware: Asus Eee-Pc-1201t, (CPU: AMD-Neo, GPU: ATI Radeon HD3200)
charakteristika of the bug: 1. gnome-settings-daemon randomly fails to start after log-in resulting in the standard-gnome-look (symbols and color-scheme in gnome-panel and nautilus) 2. after starting the appearence-menue gnome-settings-daemon starts without any problems solving the panel-issue 3. nautilus on the other hand stays uneffected 4. logging out and again logging seemes to solve the problem The problem first occured a few weeks ago, since then sporadiclly however since yesterday it occoures permanently. I ran a regular system- update yesterday. Due to var/log/dpkg.log the following packages were affected icedtea6-plugin 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1 icedtea-6-jre-cacao 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1 openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1 openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1 openjdk-6-jre 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1 the hicolor-icon-theme 0.11-1 0.11-1 is also mentioned in the log-file. Perhaps var/log/daemon.log gives some suggestions, what might be going wrong at system-start. It says: Jan 28 18:53:24 erpel gdm-simple-greeter[1771]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.22.0/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5684: widget not within a GtkWindow Jan 28 18:53:26 erpel gdm-session-worker[1780]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588155 Title: randomly gnome-settings-daemon fails to start -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
