Bug#525031: #525031 - gnome-settings-daemon: spins on cpu, possibly while Registering GsdXrandrPlugin

[Michael Cree]

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 01:10:33PM +0100, althaser wrote:
> this is an old bug.
> 
> Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer
> gnome-settings-daemon version like 3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3+deb7u3 or
> 3.8.5-2 ?

It looks like it is still there on Alpha.  I just installed gnome on a
spare partition and gdm3 fails to start properly (bug #681195) which is
reported therein as being to a segfault in gnome-settings-daemon.

Looking back at Message #47 that I wrote, gosh, four years ago (!), I
was suspicious of an incorrect relocation by the dynamic linker, which
suggests a problem in the toolchain rather than gnome-settings-daemon.

This is beyond my ability to debug further without guidance from someone
with knowledge of the dynamic linker and how relocations are resolved.

Cheers
Michael.