gconfd problems after upgrade

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Mar 25 08:23:39 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 09:22 -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Actually, i'm not using gnome, but, a part of its code is installed here as
> dependencies. After upgrade these ports to new gnome 2.22 i've started to
> have a problem, screen freezes, and after i move the mouse it back, it
> happens all the time and make impossible to use the workstation.
> 
> I saw the following message on /var/log/messages:
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> Mar 25 09:04:17 soc90 gconfd (garga-27371): Failed to send buffer
> Mar 25 09:04:17 soc90 last message repeated 9 times

These I don't see.

> 
> I tried to remove .gconf* on my home but nothing happened. Any ideas what's
> happening here and how to fix?

I see the mouse lock-up issue, too, and I don't think it has anything to
do with GNOME.  It was reported on x11@ on March 5.  I think it has
something to do with the recent X.Org jerky mouse changes.  Disabling
moused, and having X talk directly to /dev/psm0 is a workaround.

Joe

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