This generally seems to happen when two syndaemons are running. They are being spawned by gnome-settings-daemon.
Comment 69 is the case where there are two instances from the user. This could happen if g-s-d crashes and then respawns, as right now g-s-d only checks its internal variable manager->priv->syndaemon_spawned, it doesn't actually check if there is a running instance. This confirms the g-s-d task. Comment 81 is the case where syndaemon gets started from lightdm, and keeps running in the user session. I think the best and easiest solution would be to change g-s-d gsettings in lightdm to not start syndaemon at all, it's not really necessary/useful in the greeter and just overhead. ** Summary changed: - Synaptics touchpad stops working + Synaptics touchpad stops working - two syndaemon instances running ** Package changed: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu Oneiric) => lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric) ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Precise) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Precise) Milestone: oneiric-updates => None ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric) Milestone: oneiric-updates => None ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Precise) Assignee: (unassigned) => Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Precise) Milestone: oneiric-updates => ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Precise) Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Oneiric) Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Oneiric) Assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) => (unassigned) ** Tags added: rls-p-tracking -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/868400 Title: Synaptics touchpad stops working - two syndaemon instances running To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/868400/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp