gnome settings daemon broken on upgrade

[nospoon]

I upgraded via update-manager from fully updated 8.10 to 9.04, and following, applications relying on gnome-settings daemon stopped working. Preference apps like "sound" and "appearance" don't load properly, and themes are not properly applied.

When I try to start gnome-settings-daemon via the command line I get this error:


$gnome-settings-daemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:30850): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:30850): WARNING **: Could not acquire name


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[stco]

I had the same problem yesterday.

In my case, I noticed that in synaptic the package gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly was not updated to the last version, I updated it to the version 0.10.10.2-1build1, rebooted and this solved the problem.

Hope it helps!