It didn't occur to me to report it... but YES, I also run gnome under
VNC. Sounds like the same problem.
--
Gnome settings daemon randomly does not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146946
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu
I'm seeing this with ubuntu 8.04.1 with the standard 2.6.24-19-generic kernel.
I ran gnome-settings-daemon with GDB. here is the backtrace.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f518bbcd7a0 (LWP 6629)]
0x7f517eea473d in ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings