I am also experiencing this issue with Xubuntu desktop in 11.10. Light DM becomes unusable, cannot start Ubuntu Software Center or Update Manager, etc - all related to dbus exiting when networking is stopped.
Alonso's workaround works for me, tho I'm not sure it is the proper long term solution. -- 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/868095 Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashes on resume in VMware Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: gnome-settings-[2165]: segfault at 8 ip 00d5a5a8 sp bf8051f0 error 4 in libpower.so[d4b000+18000] Reliable gnome-settings-daemon crash every time an oneiric system is suspended then resumed in VMware Player. Occurs under both VMware Player 3.x and the newest 4 version. Crash occurs when tried with open-vm tools and the official VMware bundle. When gnome-settings-daemon crashes the desktop has no theming and broken menus. A restart is needed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.0-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 5 00:59:00 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (29 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/868095/+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
