I have encountered this bug as well, and verified removing libvisual plugins fixed.
I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on x86 32bit. (Thinkpad T61).
gnome-settings-daemon worked fine until the last reboot due to a slew of updates for Ubuntu 8.10.
I had restarted this morning due to those fixes, and then had this problem.
Sounds like there is a good handle on the problem.
I have encountered this bug as well, and verified removing libvisual plugins fixed.
I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on x86 32bit. (Thinkpad T61).
gnome-settings- daemon worked fine until the last reboot due to a slew of updates for Ubuntu 8.10.
I had restarted this morning due to those fixes, and then had this problem.
Sounds like there is a good handle on the problem.