Error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon -- themes, sounds, background settings may not work correctly.

[ARUP]

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The last error message was:

Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 22 13:59:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: synaptic 0.61ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

[pelm (pelle-ekh)]

Have the exact error message as above. Also on Hardy Heron 8.04.2 with all recent updates. The message appeared first for a week or so back, and was not there before at gnome login. The system seems not broken or so after login, gnome is working as before, but this annoying message now and then (not every login) are not good. Can't estimate what is wrong. Or 'if' it's something which is wrong judging from the system working as expected as before. Nothing is reported in xsession-errors neither, when the message box appear.
But if nothing is wrong no message as this should appear.

Hope for further information on this.

/pelm

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Jan Knuts (jan-knuts)]

Same as above. 8.04 ..My computer almost locks when started without ethernet connected.
reproducble..yes
ethernet connected..normal
ethernet disconnected..error messeges as above ..slow computer

Jan K

[Travis Patocka (travisp11)]

Thanks for all of the information. I will try to restart the netbook with an ethernet cable plugged in to see what happens. I figured that with over 125MB of updates to do that at some point along the line that there could be a glitch or two that would pop up. This forum is great and I appreciate your help!!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue should be resolved in current versions, closing the bug