It seems a bit odd that something in a visualization library can crash gnome-settings-daemon, thus causing my entire desktop to function incorrectly.
Perhaps this is a bit of overzealous linking? I am guessing libvisual is touched by gstreamer which is touched by gnome-settings-daemon. Why? -- Crash at login https://launchpad.net/bugs/72814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs