Bug#293949: gnome-desktop-environment: fam eats 100% CPU, please remove it

[Sergey V. Spiridonov]

Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Version: 64
Followup-For: Bug #293949


Please, remove dependency on fam, following bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896
makes it unusable. It is also hard to fix on user side, 
because user can not stop fam without becoming superuser.

On my machine fam starts to consume 100% CPU each and 
every time I mount my flash drive. It also prevents
umounting cdroms and flashdrives.

Nautilus works perfectly without fam. Probably fam will 
work again after including inotify support. One can 
always use refresh button if needed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on:
ii  epiphany-browser              1.4.8-3    Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii  esound                        0.2.35-2   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support
di  fam                           2.7.0-6    File Alteration Monitor
ii  file-roller                   2.8.4-2    an archive manager for GNOME
ii  gcalctool                     4.4.20-1   A GTK+ 2.0 desktop calculator
ii  gconf-editor                  2.8.2-2    An editor for the GConf configurat
ii  gnome-about                   2.8.3-2    The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-core                    64         The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e
ii  gnome-games                   1:2.8.3-2  games for the GNOME desktop
ii  gnome-gv                      1:2.8.2-3  GNOME PostScript viewer
ii  gnome-media                   2.8.0-0.3  Gnome 2 Media Utilities
ii  gnome-system-monitor          2.8.1-1    Process viewer and system resource
ii  gnome-themes                  2.8.2-3    official themes for the GNOME 2 de
ii  gnome-utils                   2.8.1-1    GNOME desktop utilities
ii  gnome2-user-guide             2.8.1-2    GNOME 2 User's Guide
ii  gnomemeeting                  1.0.2-7    The GnomeMeeting Voice Over IP Sui
ii  gpdf                          2.8.2-1.2  Portable Document Format (PDF) vie
ii  gucharmap                     1:1.4.2-1  Unicode character picker and font 
ii  magicdev                      1.1.6-2    A GNOME daemon for automatically m
ii  nautilus-cd-burner            2.8.7-3    CD Burning front-end for Nautilus
ii  nautilus-media                0.8.1-2    Multimedia goodies for Nautilus
ii  zenity                        2.8.2-1    Display graphical dialog boxes fro

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