I guess my solution is similar to j. Tole, In my case, I had this error because my firewall guarddog doesn't keep its settings at boot, and was filtering that. You can verify it with "iptables -L". To reload the rules at startup, I had to add in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
if [ -x /etc/rc.firewall ]; then /etc/rc.firewall fi Tech info: Kubuntu 7.04 & Ubuntu desktop / Guarddog -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
