Two instances of gconfd launched at session start?

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte smolny plus com>]

Hi all.

Just wondering why an attempt is made to run two instances of gconfd at
the start of my gnome sessions.  Here's my syslog:

Dec 14 18:30:49 localhost gconfd (sebyte-3486): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 3486 user 'sebyte'
Dec 14 18:30:49 localhost gconfd (sebyte-3489): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 3489 user 'sebyte'
Dec 14 18:30:49 localhost gconfd (sebyte-3489): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/tmp/gc\onfd-sebyte/lock/ior': probably another process has the lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking mis\configured (Resource temporarily unavailable)
Dec 14 18:30:49 localhost gconfd (sebyte-3486): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" \to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Dec 14 18:30:49 localhost gconfd (sebyte-3486): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/sebyte/.gconf" to a writa\ble configuration source at position 1
Dec 14 18:30:50 localhost gconfd (sebyte-3486): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" t\o a read-only configuration source at position 2

The second instance simply dies and the first is unaffected so I don't
think it is causing any problems.  Just wondering why it happens...

Seb

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