Try logging all the way out of X, switch to console view (control-alt-f1),
clear out temp as root (rm -rf /tmp/*),  then reboot.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> 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.
>
> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in