I'm seeing the same behavior on 11.10 after updating this morning. Alonso's workaround doesn't apply to me as it occurs on my physical system. This is rather frustrating as I'm currently working in a network lab - requiring many networking stops - and each iteration requires a restart!
-- 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
