An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-settings-daemon

When an account is deleted and a new account is created from the system with the same username, the GConf configuration system may fail to handle configuration for the gnome-settings-daemon etc

The error will look like

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-settings-daemon. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

You might lose a couple of icons as well and the screen seems unusable

To solve this issue, you might have to remove the user's gconf-username directory found in the /tmp

# rm -rf /tmp/gconfd-session/

If you are using the xrdp, do

# service xrdp restart

Similarly. if you are using vnc, remember to kill your older session and create a new session one

For more information, do look at

What can I do if I get 'An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-settings-daemon' when I run a GNOME session?