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)] 0x00007f517eea473d in ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libmouse.so Shutdown failed or nothing to shut down. (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f517eea473d in ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libmouse.so #1 0x00007f517eea48cd in gsd_mouse_manager_start () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libmouse.so #2 0x00007f517eea37f7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libmouse.so #3 0x0000000000404f0c in gnome_settings_plugin_info_activate () #4 0x0000000000403c85 in ?? () #5 0x00007f5187562e0d in g_slist_foreach () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #6 0x0000000000403e94 in gnome_settings_manager_start () #7 0x0000000000403ad8 in main () (gdb) info thread 2 Thread 0x422ad950 (LWP 6634) 0x00007f51873005cb in read () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 * 1 Thread 0x7f518bbcd7a0 (LWP 6629) 0x00007f517eea473d in ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libmouse.so -- 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