Comment 0 for bug 863054

This has shown up starting with daily from 09/27 where happened often, currently on install using daily from 0/29 updated where it happened just once so far out of 6 or so restarts

Symptoms are:
synaptic will fail to start from desktop icon
network manager fails to start
external drives can't be mounted
a restart and or shutdown from session indicator will fail
update manager will not check for updates
In all the above I have no permission to do so

~/.xession-errors is owned by root - attached

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 30 02:52:25 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110929)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)