Fedora
gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #969359
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 969359

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Patrick Henning (phen93) wrote : Re: gnome-settings-daemon consumes 100% cpu

I am also encountering this bug. For me it seems to be triggered by use of volume keys on keyboard, which correlates with what is discussed in this thread:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=230568
A temporary workaround on fedora was to disable the media keys functionality of gnome. So I'm thinking this is an issue with gnome more so than ubuntu itself.