After updating my system with Orbit-2.14.8 I found that after starting Firefox my system CPU would go to 100%. Top showed both Firefox and gconfd-2 we running the cpu to max. I then tried to run gconf-cleaner and it resulted in the same condition (gconf-cleaner and gconfd-2 running the cpu at 100%). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge orbit-2.14.8 2. logout of kde and log back in 3. Run firefox Actual Results: Firefox does not appear to start. System cpu maxes out. process displays (top) show gconfd-2 and Firefox-bin running the cpu. Expected Results: Firefox should start and display my home page. I am running KDE but there are certain applications that require the use of gnome components. Here is my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3.3 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:47:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6-r2, 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/jetty/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ #ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/ " LC_ALL="en_US" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi aim alsa apache2 artworkextra berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cairo canvas cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dmi doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread ecc emacs emboss encode evo examples fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb freetts gdbm gecko-sdk gif gimpprint glitz glut gmp gpm graphviz gs gstreamer010 guile hal howl iconv idea insecure-savers ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kerberos ldap lesstif libclamav live mad mailwrapper mbrola midi mikmod mmx mmx2 mng mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysql ncurses network new-login nls no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntlm oci8 offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png postgres povray ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline real reflection rtc ruby sdl session source speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales vorbis win32codecs x86 xanim xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa vga" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
does all your gnomey programs are stopped when you log off kde ? did you trying downgrading to 2.14.7 ? as a side note, gconf-cleaner isn't supported on gentoo and considered dangerous.
(In reply to comment #1) > does all your gnomey programs are stopped when you log off kde ? I think you're asking if there were any gnome related apps left over from a prior session and I don't think so. I actually re-booted (as loath as I am to do), logged in and tried FF and I still got the same results (i.e. 100%cpu and no FF). > did you trying downgrading to 2.14.7 ? Yes, sorry I forgot to mention it. I downgraded t 2.14.7 and all was well. > as a side note, gconf-cleaner isn't supported on gentoo and considered > dangerous. I wondered why it wasn't in portage. I thought I might have some corrupted files in my $HOME/.gconf directory so I was going to use it to see if I could clean that up. What it did was tell me that because it had the same problem as FF that it wasn't a FF specific problem.
I bet it's the GIOP_timeout rewrite that is causing this. I updated orbit on my desktop as well and I don't have such problem but I'm using a gnome desktop. Before filling the bug upstream, could you tell me if all your gnome related apps are up to date and if you could consider trying gconf-2.19.1 from the gnome-overlay. Although if you could provide a trace of gconf while it's eating your CPU, that might help us understand the problem.
(In reply to comment #3) > Before filling the bug upstream, could you tell me if all your gnome related > apps are up to date and if you could consider trying gconf-2.19.1 from the > gnome-overlay. I keep my system as up to date as possible so I'm pretty sure they are. As for 2,19.1, I'd be happy to try that. > > Although if you could provide a trace of gconf while it's eating your CPU, that > might help us understand the problem. I took an strace of FF (with -f -ff) and I think I kept the traces. The problem (and the traces) are on my machine at work and I can't access that from home so any further information will have to wait until Monday. Also, this may be a bit of a moot point. I keep a similar system updated at home the same way I do at work (KDE, ~x86, etc) and I now see that I have orbit-2.14.8 on that system and I'm not seeing any problems (I'm posting with the same level of FF on this system). I'm sure there's lots of differences in the two systems with regards to the installed packages.
looks like bug #188825 has the answer to this problem.
please get back to us, 2.14.8-r3 has some more bug fixes.
