Given all the mouse configuration references in the stacktrace, and having read somewhere about someone having a similar problem being caused by a bug with their touchpad, I tried commenting out the Synaptics touchpad entries in xorg.conf.
Lo and behold, the gnome-settings-daemon problem goes away. Unexpectly, the touchpad still works. Maybe there is some sort of fallback driver for the touchpad that does not cause the crash.
Given all the mouse configuration references in the stacktrace, and having read somewhere about someone having a similar problem being caused by a bug with their touchpad, I tried commenting out the Synaptics touchpad entries in xorg.conf.
Lo and behold, the gnome-settings- daemon problem goes away. Unexpectly, the touchpad still works. Maybe there is some sort of fallback driver for the touchpad that does not cause the crash.