I had similar symptoms under lucid while trying to change my window
manager to sawfish--one CPU pegged at 100%, with top showing gconfd-2
using up about 20% and Xorg about 15%. It turns out that the problem
was caused by metacity trying to start, realizing that another window
manager was running,
Also had Metacity problem. I had enabled Metacity in Startup to fix an
earlier problem. An update must have fixed the original problem but left
an unnecessary instance of Metacity. As #26, Disable Metacity in
Startup Applications and reboot.
Lucid 2.6.32-23 generic-pae
Gnome 2.30.2
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I am also seeing this on Karmic.
I also think gconf should not allow another buggy program to use up the
CPU. It really needs to throw a user-visible error stating what the
problem is, and throttle the other buggy program.
Ah, I believe metacity didn't come up as expected this boot, and I
Thanks, olksy (#24)!
The pkill -9 vino-server solved the problem for me and now my CPU
usage is back to the previously normal 5% when idle.
I do not have metacity listed in my startup apps, but it shows in gPS
when not using desktop effects; when using desktop effects, it
disappears. Either
I can confirm that #25 helped me to resolve my problem, so doing #26
fixed it :)
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I'm running Karmic Koala, and recent updates have broken compiz.
1. Compiz stopped starting automatically at start-up. I couldn't enable
it in gnome-appearance-properties. It seems that compiz loads but then
the properties dialog delays for a while and then comes back and says
that it could not
i was resolved this.
system - preference - startup applications - deselect metacity.
then my cpu usage down to 1 %
hope this will help you.
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But, in addition to posted above, that was not all I found out. CPU load
goes down even more from 50% to 0%, if I restart metacity:
pkill metacity
nohup metacity /dev/null
Anyone can suggest where I should post this GNOME issue ?
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Dudes, I've found the root of this problems for my PC. Probably, this
should help you.
For me that vino remote desktop server was loading gconfd. Trick that
fixes problem is to kill vino-server after GNOME login.
pkill -9 vino-server
Then, it resurrects back but stops flooding gconfd.
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I've assigned this as a gconf bug, because:
(a) it fairly clearly is, from the work-arounds
(b) it just shouldn't happen that certain configuration item should put the
program into a loop.
(c) this bug needs some activity to stop it being deleted.
Features of this bug as I've seen it:
On
thank you for you bug report but that's not a gconf issue there is just
a client application doing lot of gconf calls
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Hmm further testing shows:
1. Removing .gconf solves the problem for one login, but it returns on second
login.
2. I saw occasional defunct copies of metacity in top.
3. Disabling desktop effects seems to solve the problem
So does that make it a metacity / compiz bug?
If I understand you
the isue is not a gconf one but apparently an user setting which
triggers lot of gconf use in some software, try to figure which one and
reassign the bug there
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i confirm this
i have double screen
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Reproduced in a distribution upgrade on amd64 from 8.10 to 9.04, and
removing ~/.gconf for the affected user(s) and logging back in does work
around the symptom.
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i had the same problem
In the session manager i unchecked metacity wich was redundant with window
manager and gconfd-2 came back to the normal.
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I had the same problem. i had installed Intrepid after reformatting my /
partition but still had /home left over from Fedora. I ended up with
high CPU usage. I reformatted again to Hardy and the problem was gone.
I've just followed the Upgrade process to go Intrepid and the problem
has come back.
the following did the trick:
i wrote a delay-script for starting up compiz. delayed for 10sec.
since than gconf2 is quiet, behaving nomal.
1)
systempreferencesappearancevisual effects set to none
2)
open terminal and do:
$ sudo gedit /home/where/ever/compizdelay.sh
paste this text and save:
what i discovered in the meantime:
it is not deleting ANY files that solves the problem, but simply restarting
xserver with ctrl+alt+backspace does the trick. bizarrr
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what i discovered in the meantime:
it is not deleting ANY files that solves the problem, but simply restarting
xserver with ctrl+alt+backspace does the trick. bizarrr
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and i forgot to tell u this:
when this bug appears, the ugly ubuntu-login-sound comes up at login, while it
is disabled in the sound-manager...
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deleting ~/.gconf is not a solution after all:
it came back,
today, one week later, gconf-2 pushes cpu to 20%.
this is bad.
i cannot always delete ~/.gconf, because i will have to reconfigure everything
again,
i consider this as a bad bug.
please help,
thx
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I can confirm, removing ~/.gconf did the trick.
i had 20%-30% constant cpu on gconf-2 like all my collegs above, after fresh
install ubuntu ibex with seperate /home partition, which caries all the
configurations since feisty...
thx sor solution!
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I can confirm, removing stale configuration makes gconfd to behave
normally.
I had exactly the same problem after fresh installing 8.10 with /home
partition from 8.04 retained. gconfd was constantly eating ~30% of CPU,
effectively draining the battery of my laptop in 40 minutes. I asked on
Can confirm this using a /home with a user that was created using 8.04.
I then reinstalled the system as 8.10 (keeping the old /home partition
from 8.04). Creating a new user in 8.10 caused no gconfd-2 problems, but
logging in as the old user instantly got me a gconfd-2 process eating
away at the
I realised that, as I hadn't seen this problem when I tested with an
8.10 LiveCD, this was likely to be some old settings getting in the way
of some new way of doing things in Intrepid. So I made a new user and
logged in as that user. Behold, problem gone.
After that it was a matter of bisecting
I can confirm this one. I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, and since
the upgrade gconf2 is eating CPU. After installing glib debug symbols, I
got this stack trace for the rampant process:
(gdb) bt full
#0 0x7f7c59cb41cf in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#1
Hello,
It'is realy a strange thing...
When my session starts, gconfd-2 is running high, with 20% CPU. Compiz
in disabled in System Preference Appearence.
When I try to launch compiz with the command-line , I have the folowing
message (old version, before today's update):
code
$
Hello,
I disabled Compiz, and the process gconfd-2 daemon use less processor
(it is not in the top precesses anymore). The laptop is an old Toshiba
Tecra, with a centrino 1.4 GHz, 500 MiB Ram and an ATI Radeon Mobility
9000.
Thanks
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Hello,
My CPU is always around 100%, including gconfd-2 daemon that uses almost
10-20% CPU.
Find enclosed the htop screenshot, showing main processes.
I've put my nice back to 0 for X11, with dpkg-reconfigure, with the
same result.
Thanks
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thanks for the report, is the gconf using 100% or 10% your description
doesn't match the summary, can you clarify please? thanks.
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
Status: New = Incomplete
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