I can confirm I'm seeing the same issue with gnome-settings-daemon after update to 2.27.4-0ubuntu1 WITHOUT pulseaudio installed and running. When I install pulseaudio, pulseaudio-esound-compat, , pulseaudio-module-hal, and pulseaudio-module-x11, then gnome-settings-daemon stops looping and is "happy".
I also was seeing this with gnome-volume-manager and it is no longer looping once pulseaudio daemon is running.
I can confirm I'm seeing the same issue with gnome-settings- daemon after update to 2.27.4-0ubuntu1 WITHOUT pulseaudio installed and running. When I install pulseaudio, pulseaudio- esound- compat, , pulseaudio- module- hal, and pulseaudio- module- x11, then gnome-settings- daemon stops looping and is "happy".
I also was seeing this with gnome-volume- manager and it is no longer looping once pulseaudio daemon is running.