Re: bad voodoo with gconfd-2 and gdm

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 09:26, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hey Bastien,
> 
> > > > I don't know why gdm is starting it - probably some side effect from
> > > > libgnomeui? libgnomeui tends to do things that don't make sense for
> > > > weird apps like gdm.
> > > 
> > > gdm is the most likely candidate at this point, since nothing much else is 
> > > running at start-up.
> > 
> > As I already said on IRC, and I'm repeating here, I don't see why gconf
> > would be running for your user because of gdm.
> 
> I agree, I don't see that either.  But I can't see any other candidate.
> Here's a snippet of my process table after a fresh boot into initlevel 5, 
> with gdm running, but without logging into it :
> 
> root      1324  0.8  1.1 10148 2832 ?        S    10:11   0:00 
> /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
> root      1360  0.1  1.1 10152 3000 ?        S    10:11   0:00 
> /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
> root      1361  7.9  5.5 33680 14192 ?       S    10:11   0:01 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth
> thomas    1370  0.3  0.8  3596 2076 ?        S    10:12   0:00 
> /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 4
> gdm       1376 13.1  5.0 18608 12920 ?       S    10:12   0:01 
> /usr/bin/gdmgreeter
> 
> Somewhere between starting gdm-binary and gdmgreeter, gconfd-2 gets 
> executed, as my most-used user, without me having specified user "thomas" 
> anywhere.
> So any hints I can try to find out why this happens are greatly 
> appreciated ;) something is seriously wrong here.  Maybe there is some way 
> I can tell gconfd-2 to be more verbose about it's logging, to find out who 
> asked for a gconf key ?

Hmm, except if you rebooted the machine, gconfd is probably just a
left-over from your previous running session.

<snip>
> BTW, removing GConf2 from my /usr system is not an option anyway as long 
> as I'll be making GStreamer packages and testing them out myself.
> It *is* possible to run gnome stuff from separate prefixes, so this is 
> just one (very deeply hidden) bug that needs to be solved, not worked 
> around.

Fair enough. I still think it's not gdm's fault. Prove me wrong ;)

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/Bastien Nocera
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