I didn't experience it again, so must have been transient, or fixed by later updates. Will report back if I see it again. I only saw it on Ubuntu Gnome.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1232419 Title: [xsettings]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in notify_have_shell() Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: No idea what this relates to, but the crash was reported on a reboot, and appeared just after launching the Display settings UI. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-9.16-generic 3.11.2 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-9-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Sat Sep 28 00:08:59 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-15 (43 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130626) MarkForUpload: True ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/false SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0xb5a5d12a: mov (%eax),%eax PC (0xb5a5d12a) ok source "(%eax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%eax" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon StacktraceTop: ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/libxsettings.so ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 ffi_call_SYSV () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 Title: [xsettings]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_SYSV() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1232419/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp