When gdm is configured in /etc/gdm/custom.conf to log in a user automatically, gnome-settings-daemon doesn't start up when the user logs in, so stuff isn't set up properly. Running /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon by hand after logging in seems to solve the problem, although there may be lurking issues remaining.
are you sure it's automatic login that's the problem? Were you possibly hit by the bug Behdad mentioned in his blog post here: http://mces.blogspot.com/2008/12/improving-login-time-part-3.html ?
That's way too much for me to grok. All I know is that when I log in automatically -- no gnome-settings daemon -- and when I log in by typing my password -- gnome-settings-daemon is running correctly.
This doesn't happen every time, so you may be right that it has something to do with that other issue. Today when I rebooted and automatic login happened, my settings daemon was running like it should have been. But I still didn't have SSH agent functionality, so that other bug seems to be reliable.
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