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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gconfd-2 woes
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:36:05
Message-Id: 4F6BA8EB.9060506@xunil.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: gconfd-2 woes by walt
1 Am 2012-03-22 20:47, schrieb walt:
2 > On 03/22/2012 12:03 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
3 >> Am 2012-03-22 19:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
4 >>>
5 >>> greets,
6 >>>
7 >>> today I wanted to be clever and ran "emerge -e gnome" to rebuild all my
8 >>> gnome-3 desktop.
9 >>>
10 >>> Unfortunately things didn't get better from this.
11 >>>
12 >>> I can hardly logon, gconfd-2 produces high load and
13 >>> /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state grows quickly to around 4 GB until it
14 >>> fills the disk :-(
15 >>>
16 >>> I removed that file while gdm was not running, no matter, it got created
17 >>> again ...
18 >>
19 >> addon: it seems full of pulseaudio-related lines ... maybe I should
20 >> rebuild that one now as well
21 >
22 > Or delete it ;) If that doesn't work I would start by creating a new test
23 > user account and run gnome-3 from there. The problem may be caused by one
24 > of the zillion gnome config files in your home directory.
25
26 The problem starts even before I log in!
27
28 S