When I login to one of my accounts I get the message
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
correctly.
The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
The last error message was:
Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. 

Below is a copy of file  /tmp/xses-michal.MgBtev left by this failure.

/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w
/var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "michal"
warning: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/92xprint-xpserverlist does not end in .sh
extension, ignoring
Agent pid 3306
/home/michal/.bashrc: line 41: /home/michal/cern/CLHEP_env.sh: No such file or
directory
/home/michal/.bashrc: line 42: /home/michal/cern/geant4/env.sh: No such file or
directory
SESSION_MANAGER=local/ml-cvu.wustl.edu:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3276
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
manager.c/978: mount_all: mounting /dev/sda1
manager.c/834: Mounted: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_6853-5BA9
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Traceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 53134

nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204

nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename
Warning: program compiled against libxml 206 using older 204
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined symbol:
xmlNewTextReaderFilename


I really don't know what causes this problem. 
I thought it may be caused by invoking e.g. gedit from
the command line or other gnome program or
invoking gedit from command line while being logged
to another account. 

This problem is limited to one account where I have 
been doing software development and using mozilla firebird
and evolution. Only solution I found it was to backup files
in the affected directory excluding .gc* and .gn* subdirectories,
remove/recreate account, and restore carefully backed up files. 
I did this twice and I just got this message for the third time.

This never happened in previous versions of Gnome included in
RH Linux 8, 9, FC1, and FC2 distributions. 


Michal