Comment 9 for bug 1523698

I tracked down the problem to the `accounts-daemon` process.

Once I disabled that, as described in the link below, my problems seem to have gone away.
indicator-sound-service, unity-settings-daemon, ... are all behaving correctly.

I have yet to figure out what impact disabling the `accounts-daemon` process has, though.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/685193/what-starts-accounts-daemon