I can confirm that this bug happens in Ubuntu 11.10 if a Western Digital My Book (1 Tb mirroring) is connected through USB. Disconnecting the WD results in a gnome-settings-daemon that doesn't crash.
This bug can be temporarily fixed by executing the following script as startup item in "Startup Applications" : #!/bin/bash xinput --set-prop "Western Digital My Book" "Device Enabled" 0 nohup gnome-settings-daemon & > /dev/null killall nautilus nohup nautilus -n & > /dev/null This is the part in my /var/log/udev that shows that udev is seeing the USB HDD as a hid device. I'm no udev expert, so I might be wrong about this. KERNEL[12.524293] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.1/0003:1058:1105.0002 (hid) UDEV_LOG=3 ACTION=add DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.1/0003:1058:1105.0002 SUBSYSTEM=hid DRIVER=generic-usb HID_ID=0003:00001058:00001105 HID_NAME=Western Digital My Book HID_PHYS=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.5/input1 HID_UNIQ=575532513130303833303330 MODALIAS=hid:b0003v00001058p00001105 SEQNUM=1537 KERNEL[12.524319] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.1/0003:1058:1105.0002/hidraw/hidraw1 (hidraw) UDEV_LOG=3 ACTION=add DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.1/0003:1058:1105.0002/hidraw/hidraw1 SUBSYSTEM=hidraw DEVNAME=hidraw1 SEQNUM=1538 MAJOR=251 MINOR=1 -- 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/805894 Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in xkl_process_error() Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Here's a note I included in a similar bug (797947) that may help to diagnose as this might be a timing issue: I'd like to add that I can never get gnome-settings-daemon to start and stay running for more than 5 seconds, UNLESS i take the following actions, in which case it applies the themes properly and responds to theme changes and generally works just fine: 1. start 'strace gnome-settings-daemon' in a window 2. wait until the terminal appears to hang in the middle of the output 3. switch to a virtual console (ALT+F1) and login 4. pkill -9 strace 5. switch back to X - everything is fine! This works about 95% of the time. This is a laptop that always gets this error on boot up and only has one screen, no docking station, so its not anything related to screen size I should think. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.1.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-2.3-generic 3.0.0-rc4 Uname: Linux 3.0-2-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jul 3 10:35:32 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100602.2) ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Signal: 5 SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon StacktraceTop: ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0 xkl_process_error () from /usr/lib/libxklavier.so.16 _XError () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in xkl_process_error() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-05 (29 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout games libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/805894/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
