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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #728803
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 728803

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Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky) wrote :

Yep, have exactly same issue.

As I suspected from point 0, this is the gnome-settings daemon crash (rather hang more correctly).

To 'fix' the problem temporarily I did:

# the SIGKILL is importaint, because the program seems to be hung completely and ignores SIGTERM
killall -9 gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon.

#At that point panel looks ok, but nautilus not, so
#Then restart nautilus as it seems not to pick the change
killall nautilus

I bet that this is a race condition just happened to be exposed by slow virtual CPU.