w.r.t. "I've yet to see anyone for whom installing dbus-x11 has NOT fixed the problem." Didn't fix it for me. See comment #37.
Given the choice between following advice that has been proven to work -- especially when said advice is simple (install dbus-x11) -- and building an app I'm not familiar with from trunk, I tend to prefer the easier route. :-) Although for me the problem wasn't random; it was constant. so perhaps what I had was a different bug.... -- [gutsy] 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. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs