Re: gconfd-2 not shutting down

[David Roetzel <david roetzel smail inf fh-bonn-rhein-sieg de>]

Hi,

> I'm having trouble with gconfd-2 on a debian sarge based terminal
> server. The users' gconfd-2 processes won't shut down. I have to kill
> them once in a while, which is annyoing. Of course I could let a cron
> job do this, but that's not how it's supposed to be, or is it?
>
> A search on Google, on this list and a quick scan of the FAQ didn't
> help. The only thing I found out is that gconfd should quit a few
> minutes after the user's logout. Well, it doesn't. At least not on my
> system.
>
> The problem is, that it's a public internet access with lots of users
> every day, so the gconfd processes quickly fill up the process table.
>
>
> Is this expected behaviour?
>
>
>
> The expected behaviour is the one you've read about, i.e that the
> GConf daemon stops after a few seconds of inactivity (thirty seconds
> is I think the period of the check). It however needs to have no
> clients at the time, and that might be what's causing the issue in
> your environment. It's possible that some other process is keeping a
> connection to the daemon, and that prevents it from ever stopping.
> I'd suggest checking there aren't other processes which query GConf
> on behalf of connected users but never release the client connection
> to the daemon.

I already thought of that, but I have an enormous amount of gconfd-2 
processes hanging in there, that are the only processes belonging to the 
respective users.

Is it possible that it's a bug in a client application (which would most 
 possibly be firefox)? Could the connection to gconfd be open, although 
the application itself has quit?

Bye

David