Comment 26 for bug 649809

Yes, the problem is persistent.

What chipsets does everyone here have?
Mine is an Intel X58 chipset
(which can be found amongst other ways by doing a lspci)

I think I'll make up a temporary work-around script to fix this issue.
It'll most likely be a dodgy hack.
I'll post it here if and when I make the script up.

I'm quite sure something is causing gnome-settings-daemon to not start up correctly.

It looks like gnome-settings-daemon has many dependencies:-
libappindicator1 libatk1.0-0
libc6 libcairo2
libcanberra-gtk0 libcanberra0
libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2
libdbusmenu-glib1 libfontconfig1
libfreetype6 libgconf2-4
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0
libgnome-desktop-2-17 libgnomekbd4
libgtk2.0-0 libice6
libnotify1 libpango1.0-0
libpng12-0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0
libpulse0 libsm6
libstartup-notification0 libx11-6
libxext6 libxi6
libxklavier16 libxml2
zlib1g gconf2
libgnome2-common