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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gconfd-2 woes
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:50:17
Message-Id: jkfvl1$8rh$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: gconfd-2 woes by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On 03/22/2012 12:03 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
2 > Am 2012-03-22 19:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
3 >>
4 >> greets,
5 >>
6 >> today I wanted to be clever and ran "emerge -e gnome" to rebuild all my
7 >> gnome-3 desktop.
8 >>
9 >> Unfortunately things didn't get better from this.
10 >>
11 >> I can hardly logon, gconfd-2 produces high load and
12 >> /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state grows quickly to around 4 GB until it
13 >> fills the disk :-(
14 >>
15 >> I removed that file while gdm was not running, no matter, it got created
16 >> again ...
17 >
18 > addon: it seems full of pulseaudio-related lines ... maybe I should
19 > rebuild that one now as well
20
21 Or delete it ;) If that doesn't work I would start by creating a new test
22 user account and run gnome-3 from there. The problem may be caused by one
23 of the zillion gnome config files in your home directory.

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