Unable to save default display settings

[Zygmunt Krynicki]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I could not save default display settings using gnome-display-properties.

Clicking the "make default" button asks for authorization and fails to complete successfully. A popup dialog is displayed with the following message "Could not set the default configuration for monitors"

Looking at the console output I can see this messages being logged:

(gnome-display-properties:1665): Gtk-WARNING **: Ignoring the separator setting
(gnome-display-properties:1665): Gtk-WARNING **: No object called:
/etc/gnome-settings-daemon/xrandr must be a directory

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.31.92.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 21 14:22:05 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100920)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=pl_PL.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

I confirm this malfunction.

A workaround is to manually add the two missing directories.
$ sudo mkdir /etc/gnome-settings-daemon
$ sudo mkdir /etc/gnome-settings-daemon/xrandr

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

Marking this as a duplicate of bug #646076