Appearance prefs 'reset' after about 30 seconds

[sam tygier]

On 16/05/10 21:25, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> When I start my computer, Ubuntu 10.04 boots just fine. But about 30
> seconds after my desktop appears, the appearance goes from this...
>
> http://www.arumes.com/temp/S1.png
>
> ...to this...
>
> http://www.arumes.com/temp/S2.png
>
> As soon as I start Prefs/Appearance, most of the settings are restored
> without setting anything. Running the Appearance program is enough to
> restore most. Nautilus (and the right-click menu on the desktop) seems to
> be the only exception; it doesn't change back to the appearance I
> selected, but stays in the looks of the second screenshot.
>
> It's 10.04, 64 bits, proprietary ATI driver, and visual effects are all
> switched off. I didn't have this problem with 9.10, and I don't have the
> problem with 10.04 NE on my netbook.
>

looks like gnome-settings-daemon is crashing, and the theme falls back to gtk defaults. there could be an interesting message in
~/.xsession-errors

can you put it on http://paste.ubuntu.com/

sam