On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 01:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 00:35 +0000, Sam Morris a écrit : > > Please note: I don't really know which package to file this bug against, so > > bear with me. ;) > > > > Since upgrading to 2.24, I have noticed that programs no longer receive > > notifications about settings being changed after I have been logged in for > > a while. > > > > For example, changing my desktop background or font preferences has no > > effect. > > > > Another thing I have noticed is that I can't put new items on panels (though > > new items do show up after a logout/login cycle). > > OK, some questions to narrow this down: > * is the gconfd-2 daemon restarted when this happens? i.e. does > the startup time still correspond to the one of the session?
Interesting... I just checked and there are several gconfd-2 processes
running!
$ pgrep -fl gconfd
3488 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2
3851 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2
4289 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2
$ ps u 3488 3851 4289
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
sam 3488 0.0 0.6 9648 6432 ? S Feb26 0:02
/usr/lib/libgco
sam 3851 0.0 0.5 8020 6116 ? SN 00:00 0:02
/usr/lib/libgco
sam 4289 0.1 0.5 7948 6004 ? SN 00:30 0:01
/usr/lib/libgco
$ w
00:50:10 up 54 min, 6 users, load average: 2.53, 1.47, 0.95
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
sam tty7 :0 23:58 1.00s 2:39 0.26s
/usr/bin/gnome-
> * If, when this happens, you kill the gconfd-2 process, do
> notifications start to happen again?
I just killed them, then changed my desktop background, but nautilus did
not notice.
> * If, when notifications are still working, you kill the gconfd-2
> process, do they stop working?
Will check this once I log in again.
>
> Thanks,
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Sam Morris
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