I have the same problem when using natty (all updates installed as of today) in Virtual Box 4.0.4 (Windows), using the classic desktop. gnome- settings-daemon crashes about 30 sec. after login, no matter whether the vbox guest additions are installed or not. (The following .xsession- errors is with guest utils.)
.xsession-errors says: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... Setting IM through im-switch for locale=de_AT. Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default. GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-mhTPn4 GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-mhTPn4 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-mhTPn4/ssh GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-mhTPn4 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-mhTPn4/ssh ** (gnome-settings-daemon:1320): WARNING **: You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting ** (gnome-settings-daemon:1320): WARNING **: Unable to start xsettings manager: Could not initialize xsettings manager. Initializing nautilus-gdu extension (nautilus:1337): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (nautilus:1337): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed ** (process:1350): DEBUG: zeitgeist-datahub.vala:174: Inserting 1 events Warnung der Fensterverwaltung: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x3c00024 (kofler@vbo); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. ---- If I try to manually restart gnome-settings-daemon, I get this error: user$ gnome-settings-daemon ** (gnome-settings-daemon:1597): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon ** (gnome-settings-daemon:1597): WARNING **: Could not acquire name --- I also had random problems with gnome-settings-daemon on real hardware (with closed nvidia driver) in beta 1, but they seem to have dissapeared now. However, I am using Unity on this machine, not the classic desktop. -- 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/756882 Title: Unity mysteriously loses theme -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
