Could you please provide us more details about this problem?
1) Is your disk full? If in doubt, run this command at the terminal:
df -h
2) Can you try to open a terminal and run "gnome-settings-daemon" and paste here the full output?
3) Could you send us your ~/.xsession-errors file? It would be better if you could delete it, then try to use GNOME again, then send us the content of that file (somehow).
In any case, I believe this is a duplicate bug of #146946
Thank you for your report, Jef.
Could you please provide us more details about this problem?
1) Is your disk full? If in doubt, run this command at the terminal:
df -h
2) Can you try to open a terminal and run "gnome- settings- daemon" and paste here the full output?
3) Could you send us your ~/.xsession-errors file? It would be better if you could delete it, then try to use GNOME again, then send us the content of that file (somehow).
In any case, I believe this is a duplicate bug of #146946