I've been having the same issue on a clean install of Gutsy, even with the latest updates. Bug #146946 describes my issue perfectly.
Henriƫl Veldtmann suggested a fix that has solved my problems so far: installing the dbus-X11 package. I'm not positive why this solves things, but it does for me. The issue might not be related to gnome-control-center, but either way it's worth investigating further. Clean installations of Gutsy shouldn't be giving errors like this. -- Gnome settings daemon doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138277 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