Re: Nautilus crashing...

[Eugene Marcotte <mrpicalo skyflux com>]

I was wondering if there was anyone that could point me to a message on
a mailing list or a webpage or a documentation file that would tell me
why gconfd keeps running after logout. It seems kind of wasteful to me
at least.

Especially when people often logout to switch to garnome occasionally..
it causes problems. It seems really silly to keep settings loaded for a
user that isn't logged on. 

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:10 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% Robert Foster <rfoster mountainvisions com au> writes:
> 
>   rf> Bingo! that did the trick, thanks.
>   rf> All problems fixed now... for the moment at least :)
> 
> The problem is that gconfd doesn't exit when you log out, so when you
> log in again you're still using the old one, not a new one.  And if
> gconfd from an older version of Gnome is running with 2.8.0 well, it's
> just not good!
> 
> As an alternative to rebooting you could log in as root, find the
> processes still running as your username; maybe something like:
> 
>     ps -aef | grep psmith
> 
> (although of course use your account not psmith :)), then kill
> anything suspicious looking.
> 
> 
> Or you can just reboot :).
> 
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