Please describe the problem:
Unable to start gnome-settings-daemon.

Steps to reproduce:
1. run gnome-settings-daemon in terminal
2. 
3. 


Actual results:
Running gnome-settings-daemon in terminal gives:

[QUOTE]ian@COOLERMASTER:~$ gnome-settings-daemon

** ERROR **: You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting

aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)
ian@COOLERMASTER:~$[/QUOTE]

Enabling root user and then logging in with su and running gnome-settings-daemon gives:

[QUOTE]root@COOLERMASTER:/home/ian# gnome-settings-daemon

** (gnome-settings-daemon:6645): WARNING **: Unable to connect to dbus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

** ERROR **: You can only run one xsettings manager at a time; exiting

aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)
root@COOLERMASTER:/home/ian#[/QUOTE]

Expected results:
gnome-settings-daemon would start, without an error message

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Currently using GNOME 2.20 on Ubuntu Gutsy 2.20.
Linux COOLERMASTER 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

There appear to be many other people experiencing similar problems.  If you have time to look, this thread on the official Ubuntu forum might be worth a read:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587410

If I can help with an further info, please let me know.

Best Regards,

itsjustarumour