I haven't seen this in a real machine, but I'm running Natty inside VirtualBox 4.06 under Windows and I get this problem there.
** (gnome-settings-daemon:1351): WARNING **: You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting ** (gnome-settings-daemon:1351): WARNING **: Unable to start xsettings manager: Could not initialize xsettings manager. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649809 Title: the session settings manager can try starting before the login screen one exits -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs