Re: gconfd-2 running rampant on my system

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:17:12PM -0600, Robert Small wrote:
> Well, it was definately in the ~/.gconfd/saved_state file.  Blew that 
> away and my problem with it taking over the CPU went away.  NOW when I 
> start Gnome, I get LOTS of nautilus windows, hundreds. 

No idea on that.
 
> /home/robert/.gconfd/lock/ior': probably another process has the lock, 
> or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured (Resource 
> temporarily unavailable)

Are you using NFS? See www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for some
debugging on lockfile issues. Also try running gconf-sanity-check-2 
for a longer error message.

Sounds like something about your system is hosed, maybe file locking,
maybe something else.

Havoc