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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805894 Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in xkl_process_error() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/805894/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
