Bug#678248: gnome-settings-daemon: g-s-d crashes on startup, has to be started by hand

[Daniel Stone]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.4.2-3
Severity: important

Unfortunately I don't have much more useful information than this.  But
when I start my machine (using systemd, if that's in any way relevant),
the following things happen:
    - gdm3 starts
    - the greeter is using the standard 1980s CDE theme, with gdm logs
      showing that gsd has crashed and thus the greeter is unthemed
    - I log in
    - (sometimes my entire session is just hung on a black screen,
       sometimes killall and restart either of gnome-shell or
       gnome-settings-daemon a couple of times fixes it, sometimes not)
    - sometimes my session works perfectly (aside from all the other
      things broken in sid's GNOME right now) at this point;
    - sometimes I get my background, but the theme and window
      decorations are different (possibly some kind of Debian default?)
      from what I've chosen, and I have to killall and restart gsd, at
      which point everything works fine;
    - sometimes my background is bright blue, same theme/decoration
      issue as above, and killall/restart makes things work again.

I'm at a loss as to how to debug this, given that the GDM segfault in
particular happens before I can really get my hands on any of the
system.

Cheers,
Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-rc7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-1
ii  dpkg                                         1.16.4.3
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.4.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-33
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-4
ii  libcolord1                                   0.1.21-1
ii  libcomerr2                                   1.42.4-3
ii  libcups2                                     1.5.3-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.9.0-6
ii  libgcrypt11                                  1.5.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2                         3.4.2-1
ii  libgnomekbd7                                 3.4.0.2-1
ii  libgnutls26                                  2.12.20-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2                             1.10.1+dfsg-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               175-3.1
ii  libk5crypto3                                 1.10.1+dfsg-1
ii  libkrb5-3                                    1.10.1+dfsg-1
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.2+git20110628-2.2
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-1
ii  libnspr4                                     2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnspr4-0d                                  2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnss3                                      2:3.13.5-1
ii  libnss3-1d                                   2:3.13.5-1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.7.4-4
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      2.0-3
ii  libpulse0                                    2.0-3
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.13-1
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.16-3
ii  libwacom2                                    0.5-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0-4
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxklavier16                                5.2.1-1
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.1-1
ii  nautilus-data                                3.4.2-1
ii  zlib1g                                       1:1.2.7.dfsg-11

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  pulseaudio  2.0-3

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver            3.4.1-1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:2.34.3-2
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.7~3

-- no debconf information