I can confirm that this bug occurs for me as well, except I do get my theme and background etc. I still have the long load time for gnome, and the same gnome-settings message. I haven't tried disabling by touchpad, however.
Attached is the output of the commands requested above. ** Attachment added: "'lspci -vv', 'lspci -vvn', 'lsusb' and 'dmesg'" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7332126/tosend -- Gnome settings manager error to start desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs