[Bug 66124] gnome-settings-daemon crashes

[Nick S]

Public bug reported:

On login, gnome-settings-daemon fails to start, with the message
"restarted too many times". Trying to run from the terminal turns it,
and only it, high-contrast (I assume I accidentally set that theme at
some point) until I end it manually, or it segfaults. Due to this, I
assume, the volume + and - keys have stopped working and the theme is
incorrect.

Running gnome-settings-daemon through gdb gets the following:

xrdb:  "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb:  "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb:  "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb:  "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212
Txrdb:  "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb:  "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb:  "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb:  "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212
S(no debugging symbols found)
[1160840057,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/]    The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1226738000 (LWP 5948)]
0xb6462a70 in ?? ()
(gdb) xrdb:  "*Label.background" on line 243 overrides entry on line 170
xrdb:  "*Text.background" on line 249 overrides entry on line 211
xrdb:  "*Label.foreground" on line 255 overrides entry on line 171
xrdb:  "*Text.foreground" on line 261 overrides entry on line 212

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xb6462a70 in ?? ()
#1  0xb79da021 in gdk_x11_drawable_get_xdisplay ()
   from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#2  0xb79db78c in gdk_events_pending () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#3  0xb79dd3bb in _gdk_events_queue () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#4  0xb79dd7bf in _gdk_events_init () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb7706802 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0xb77097df in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7  0xb7709b89 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8  0xb7b55574 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#9  0x08053f6f in main ()

Thanks,
Nick

** Affects: control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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gnome-settings-daemon crashes
https://launchpad.net/bugs/66124