Comment 12 for bug 367069

Not sure why work on this bug has stopped???

I've discovered that if I kill the process gnome-settings, then I can recover the computer to a usable state. Some of the ubuntu-specific appearance tweaks are gone (back to the standard gnome panel for instance), but everything works. If I use the system for a while without touching the volume knob, then eventually I trigger gnome-settings to restart somehow and everything goes back to normal with the default ubuntu appearance.

Maybe this bug report should be moved to the package gnome-settings.

And I'm not sure how to find out if gnome-settings has been updated from what was on the original 9.04 distribution CD.

Thanks for the help. This bug is the only reason that I haven't yet upgraded to 9.04. Otherwise this is a fabulous version of Ubuntu.