Re: "failed to notify listener" - what's it mean?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Skip Montanaro <skip pobox com> writes:
> While scanning /var/log/messages for some other stuff I came across the
> following message:
> 
>     May 30 13:55:24 beluga gconfd (skip-1443): Failed to notify listener 1124074378, removing: IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> 
> I wouldn't have been all that curious about it except it appears
> approximately 20,000 times over the space of 24 hours or so.  What's it
> mean?
> 

I believe I have this message turned off by default in CVS version,
maybe not though.

Anyway it just means a process subscribed to GConf notifications and
then exited without unsubscribing, so GConf tried to notify it and it
was gone.

Havoc