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[Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

First off, yes. I'm running the NVIDIA drivers. This is not related, though. I have had this issue under multiple conditions:
1. With an ATI card, running -either- open source or proprietary drivers. (this was very oddly fixed by adding 'radeon.modeset=0' to the kernel command line though)
2. With the current NVIDIA card, running the default 'vesa' driver or with the proprietary NVIDIA driver.

In the open source ATI driver or vesa driver cases, I'm running a
completely untouched fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick.

The issue is that on login, Gnome themes aren't being properly applied.
I pinned this down to an unresponsive gnome-settings-daemon. I don't
know if gnome-settings-daemon -normally- ignores SIGTERM, but I actually
had to use SIGKILL to terminate it. Then running 'gnome-settings-daemon'
in a terminal suddenly caused the themes to show up as expected. For
some reason, this fixes everything but Nautilus, which has to be killed
with SIGTERM and then starts with the proper themes applied.

I'm not sure what logs are relevant, so please let me know what I can do
to help debug this issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  270.27  Fri Feb 18 17:36:20 PST 2011
 GCC version:  gcc version 4.4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5)
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 12 14:47:16 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: Supermicro X8DAL
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-27-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro radeon.modeset=0 nomodeset quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 11/08/10
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.0b
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: X8DAL
dmi.board.vendor: Supermicro
dmi.board.version: 2.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 17
dmi.chassis.vendor: Supermicro
dmi.chassis.version: 1234567890
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2.0b:bd11/08/10:svnSupermicro:pnX8DAL:pvr1234567890:rvnSupermicro:rnX8DAL:rvr2.0:cvnSupermicro:ct17:cvr1234567890:
dmi.product.name: X8DAL
dmi.product.version: 1234567890
dmi.sys.vendor: Supermicro
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 codename:           maverick
 architecture:       x86_64
 kernel:             2.6.35-27-generic

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick possible-manual-nvidia-install

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Title:
  gnome-settings-daemon unresponsive/broken at login