I can confirm I'm seeing the same issue with gnome-settings-daemon after update to 2.27.4-0ubuntu1 WITHOUT pulseaudio installed and running. When I install pulseaudio, pulseaudio-esound-compat, , pulseaudio- module-hal, and pulseaudio-module-x11, then gnome-settings-daemon stops looping and is "happy".
I also was seeing this with gnome-volume-manager and it is no longer looping once pulseaudio daemon is running. -- Newest version causes high CPU load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404340 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