Bug#392907: Random system crashes with gconf2 installed

[Mike O'Connor]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.14.0-4
Severity: normal

When I have gconf2 installed.  My machine either crashes or randomly
reboots several times every day.  As soon as i remove gconf2, the
crashes start.  I am not a gnome user, the only reason gconf2 was
installed on my system was becuase I was using evince.  I tried removing
all the directories in $HOME starting with '.g' but it didn't make a
difference.  The thing that makes me point this bug at gconf2 is
firstly, that with gconf2 (and libgconf2-4) removed, My machine seems to
stay up indefinately, and secondly, when I restart, and check syslog,
the last thing logged always looks something like this:

---

Oct 12 08:28:56 catfish gconfd (stew-4722): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration sourc
e at position 0
Oct 12 08:28:56 catfish gconfd (stew-4722): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/stew/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position
 1
Oct 12 08:28:56 catfish gconfd (stew-4722): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source
 at position 2
Oct 12 08:28:56 catfish gconfd (stew-4722): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration sourc
e at position 3
Oct 12 08:28:56 catfish gconfd (stew-4722): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at po
sition 4

---

Thanks,

stew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)