Comment 19 for bug 625670

I think it has to do with the order that things are loaded in. I have tried it on ext3 and the problem persisted. It seems like most of us are using i7 as well, so maybe someone should try to delay the X server/gnome DE from loading until gnome-settings-daemon is already loaded. I would do this myself, but I don't know how. Also, I can say that the workaround of de-theming GDM (I don't remember exactly *how* I did it, but it's on some forum somehwere) definitely fixes the problem.