Comment 17 for bug 272093

I've just updated 8.10 today and I now have this problem for the first time. When I restarted the machine it came up in a different theme and reports the error if I go to the appearances option.

Running gnome-settings-daemon from the command line does not return anything (it just returns) but it does not appear to have launched.

I'll happily supply logs or other help if you can tell me where to look for them.