All (?) gconf apps hang at startup.

[Erik Gustavsson <cyrano algonet se>]

I first noticed this when trying to use eog a few days ago, but I'm not
quite sure when I last used any gconf-enabled apps successfully. This
affects nautilus, eog, ggv etc. (On up-to-date Debian Sid).

It seems to me gconfd is started by the app, exits, and then the app sits
waiting for data on a pipe forever...  not quite sure, and I have no idea
what to do about it. I'd like to be able to start my apps again, any
ideas?

Here are my syslog messages, and the last part of "strace eog".

Oct 24 14:59:48 bettan gconfd (cyrano-3908): starting (version 1.0.6), pid 3908 user 'cyrano'
Oct 24 14:59:52 bettan gconfd (cyrano-3908): Received signal 1, shutting down cleanly
Oct 24 14:59:52 bettan gconfd (cyrano-3908): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to create or open '/home/cyrano/.gconfd/lock/ior'

...
mkdir("/home/cyrano/.gconfd", 0700)     = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
open("/home/cyrano/.gconfd/lock/ior", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
pipe([6, 7])                            = 0
pipe([8, 9])                            = 0
pipe([10, 11])                          = 0
fork()                                  = 3907
close(9)                                = 0
close(11)                               = 0
close(-1)                               = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(-1)                               = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(-1)                               = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
wait4(3907, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 3907
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
read(8, "", 8)                          = 0
read(10, "D\17\0\0", 4)                 = 4
read(10, "", 0)                         = 0
read(6,  <unfinished ...>


/cyr

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