Same behaviour here with Hardy installed as Alpha6 and updated as of yesterday. The starting g-s-d manually gets:
$ gnome-settings-daemon ** (gnome-settings-daemon:14409): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon ** (gnome-settings-daemon:14409): WARNING **: Could not acquire name -- [hardy] gnome-settings-daemon doesn't start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188010 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