I tracked down the problem to the `accounts-daemon` process. Once I disabled that, as described in the link below, my problems seem to have gone away. indicator-sound-service, unity-settings-daemon, ... are all behaving correctly.
I have yet to figure out what impact disabling the `accounts-daemon` process has, though. http://askubuntu.com/questions/685193/what-starts-accounts-daemon -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523698 Title: indicator-session is leaking memory on ubuntu 15.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/1523698/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
