Comment 8 for bug 188010

I've resolved this issue on my Thinkpad (which is a T21 - the A21 had no issues). I stumbled across this after I found that I could no longer ping localhost or hostname. What I found:

1. /etc/network/interfaces had the following line commented out:

# iface lo inet loopback

I uncommented the line.

2. I used the following to bring up loopback:

sudo ifconfig lo localhost
sudo route add localhost dev lo

courtesy of: <http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showpost.php?s=8089ac6575f0425788949c951c5b3e8b&p=657273&postcount=7>

I also found a similar blog regarding the same:
<http://arunpc.com/2008/06/01/ubuntu-there-was-an-error-starting-the-gnome-settings-daemon/>

After I was able to reliably ping localhost I no long get the gnome-settings-daemon msg.