Bug#553343: gnome-session: after upgrading, something continuously sends data to gconfd making it occupy 100% of the CPU

[Vasilis Vasaitis]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.28.0-2
Severity: important


  Hello,

  After I upgraded my sid system yesterday, and re-logged into my GNOME
desktop, I noticed to gconfd-2 would occupy 100% of the CPU (and it keeps
doing that after quite a few cycles of logging out / logging in). Checking
~/.gconfd/saved_state, there seems to be this stream of commands repeating
over and over:

CLIENTADD "IOR: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"
ADD 4160749973 "def" "/apps/metacity" "IOR: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"
ADD 4177527692 "def" "/desktop/gnome/applications/terminal" "IOR: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"
ADD 4194305696 "def" "/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility" "IOR: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"
ADD 4211081775 "def" "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse" "IOR: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"
REMOVE 4194305696 "def" "/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility" "IOR: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"
ADD 4227860128 "def" "/desktop/gnome/interface" "IOR: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"

  These are followed by a big block of CLIENTREMOVE commands, then
saved_state clears and it starts all over again.

  Sending SIGSTOP to the gnome-session process makes the problem go away
(but possibly creates others). Killing outright is obviously not an option;
it takes out my entire X session with it.

  I hope this can be fixed soon, it really has a big impact on the usability
of my system.

Thanks,
Vasilis


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-panel                   2.28.0-2   launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gnome-session-bin             2.28.0-2   The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii  gnome-settings-daemon         2.28.1-1   daemon handling the GNOME session 
ii  mesa-utils                    7.6-1      Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
ii  metacity                      1:2.28.0-1 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  nautilus                      2.28.1-1   file manager and graphical shell f
ii  policykit-1-gnome             0.94-1     GNOME authentication agent for Pol

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.28.1-2   power management tool for the GNOM

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-keyring                 2.28.1-1   GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.28.0-1   GNOME user's guide

-- no debconf information

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