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?
