Comment 33 for bug 588155

I can confirm this bug on my system as well.

My Ubuntu-Version: 10.10
Hardware: Asus Eee-Pc-1201t, (CPU: AMD-Neo, GPU: ATI Radeon HD3200)

charakteristika of the bug:
1. gnome-settings-daemon randomly fails to start after log-in resulting in the standard-gnome-look (symbols and color-scheme in gnome-panel and nautilus)
2. after starting the appearence-menue gnome-settings-daemon starts without any problems solving the panel-issue
3. nautilus on the other hand stays uneffected
4. logging out and again logging seemes to solve the problem

The problem first occured a few weeks ago, since then sporadiclly however since yesterday it occoures permanently. I ran a regular system-update yesterday. Due to var/log/dpkg.log the following packages were affected

icedtea6-plugin 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1
icedtea-6-jre-cacao 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1
openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1
openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1
openjdk-6-jre 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 6b20-1.9.4-0ubuntu1

the hicolor-icon-theme 0.11-1 0.11-1 is also mentioned in the log-file. Perhaps var/log/daemon.log gives some suggestions, what might be going wrong at system-start. It says:

Jan 28 18:53:24 erpel gdm-simple-greeter[1771]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.22.0/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5684: widget not within a GtkWindow
Jan 28 18:53:26 erpel gdm-session-worker[1780]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed