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Bug 411237 - gnome-base/gconf-3.2.3 with USE=orbit: gconfd writes GBytes to ~user/.gconfd/saved_state in some minutes
Summary: gnome-base/gconf-3.2.3 with USE=orbit: gconfd writes GBytes to ~user/.gconfd/...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 427184
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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: 424982 432052 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-04-08 09:26 UTC by Juergen Rose
Modified: 2012-08-20 15:23 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Juergen Rose 2012-04-08 09:26:47 UTC
After the installation of dev-libs/icu-49.1 at last Wednesday one of my systems is broken. Since Thursday icu-4.8.1.1-r1 is installed again. If I try to login via gdm as ordinary user xyz, which does no more work ( I already disabled all gnome-shell extensions) gconf writes several Gbytes in some minutes to ~xyz/.gconfd/saved_state. It looks if there are several almost identical lines in  saved_state as:
ADD 1141289556 "def" "/apps/metacity" "IOR: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"
ADD 1124512339 "def" "/apps/metacity" "IOR: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"
ADD 839299650 "def" "/apps/metacity" "IOR: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"
...
ADD 1912679554 "def" "/system/pulseaudio" "IOR: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"
ADD 3389074394 "def" "/system/pulseaudio" "IOR: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"

I already did several times refdep-rebuild, 'emerge -uvDNe system', 'emerge -v1 `qlist -IC gnome`', 'emerge -v1 `qlist -IC dbus`, 'emerge -v1 `qlist -IC gconf`'

What can I still do?


Reproducible: Always




'emerge --info' from Thuesday:
Portage 2.1.10.55 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.3.0-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.3.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9650_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p24
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.2-r3::sage-on-gentoo, 3.2.2-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.7-r5
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.9.9.3
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.6
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.3 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.14.1-r2
Repositories: gentoo x11 arcon bicatali sage-on-gentoo science java-overlay sunrise x-portage x-cpan g-octave
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1 skype-eula googleearth AdobeFlash-10.3 cadsoft Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr"
FFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="de fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/arcon /var/lib/layman/qting-edge /var/lib/layman/dotnet /var/lib/layman/pro-audio /var/lib/layman/bicatali /var/lib/layman/n4g /var/lib/layman/zugaina /var/lib/layman/sage-on-gentoo /usr/local/portage /var/lib/cpan /var/lib/g-octave"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="64bit R X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi admin afs alsa amd64 ao apache2 applet archive arpack asf aspell assistant atlas audacious audiofile automap automount bash-completion berkdb blas blast bluetooth bluray boo boost branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cg cgi chm cli consolekit corba cracklib crypt css cuda cups curl cxx daap db dbase dbi dbm dbus declarative designer devhelp device-mapper dga dia dirac djvu doc dri ds2490 ds9097 ds9097u dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dynamicplugin eds egl elf emacs emboss emf encode epiphany evo examples exif expat extensions extra extras faac faad fam ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fortran95 fpx fts3 fuse galago garmin gcj gd gdal gdbm gdu gedit geoip geolocation geos gfortran gif gimp ginac git glade glib glpk gml gmp gmtsuppl gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm grammar graphics graphtft graphviz grass gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gudev guile harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hdri http httpd hvm hwdb iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb inotify ipod ipv6 irda ithreads jabber jadetex java java6 jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kate kdrive kerberos kpathsea kqemu kvm ladspa lame lapack latex latex3 lcms ldap lensfun libffi libgda libnotify libsamplerate lirc live lm_sensors lua lzo mad mail maildir mapnik math matroska media-library mkl mmx mmxext mng modules mono motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer mtp mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networking networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntp numpy nvidia obex objc ocaml ocr octave odbc ogdi ogg ole openexr opengl openmp overview pae pam pango pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png podcast policykit portaudio posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectm projectx pstricks pulseaudio python python-bindings q16 q32 qemu qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reiserfs reports rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool sage samba sasl schroedinger science sdk sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop server session shout sip slang slp smbclient smp sms sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 sse4 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg svm swig sysfs szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs tgif theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tools truetype udev unicode usb userlocales utempter vaapi video virtualbox vorbis wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xemacs xext xft xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yaml zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DRACUT_MODULES="caps lvm mdraid syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd dlight enterprise ergonomics groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler ruby websvccommon xml" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nouveau vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Juergen Rose 2012-04-08 13:24:00 UTC
Now I see the issue at the next system, login with gdm and gnome (all extensions disabled) does no more work (Oh no! Something has gone wrong. Please contact a system administrator), and I have giant, continously growing ~rose/.gconfd/saved_state:

root@condor:/root(22)# du -s ~rose/.gconfd/saved_state 
2060088 /home/rose/.gconfd/saved_state
root@condor:/root(23)# du -s ~rose/.gconfd/saved_state 
2287528 /home/rose/.gconfd/saved_state
root@condor:/root(24)# du -s ~rose/.gconfd/saved_state 
4022052 /home/rose/.gconfd/saved_state
Comment 2 Juergen Rose 2012-04-08 13:39:55 UTC
If I am logged in via ssh and try to run meld, it fails with:

root@condor:/root(30)# meld
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 138, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 129, in main
    from meld.meldapp import app
  File "/usr/lib64/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 199, in <module>
    app = MeldApp()
  File "/usr/lib64/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 113, in __init__
    self.prefs = preferences.MeldPreferences()
  File "/usr/lib64/meld/meld/preferences.py", line 265, in __init__
    super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
  File "/usr/lib64/meld/meld/util/prefs.py", line 96, in __init__
    gval = self._gconf.get_without_default("%s/%s" % (rootkey, key))
glib.GError: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
Comment 3 Juergen Rose 2012-04-08 14:14:29 UTC
And then I still have a giant /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state file which makes, that my /var partition flows over:

root@condor:/root(13)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 629022720 Apr  8 15:30 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*

There I find, e.g.
...
ADD 184598078 "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system;xml:readonly:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory;xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/Seat1/.gconf;xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" "/system/pulseaudio" "IOR: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"
REMOVE 872507252 "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system;xml:readonly:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory;xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/Seat1/.gconf;xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" "/system/pulseaudio" "IOR: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"
ADD 201375295 "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system;xml:readonly:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory;xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/Seat1/.gconf;xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" "/system/pulseaudio" "IOR: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"
REMOVE 4160761912 "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system;xml:readonly:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory;xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/Seat1/.gconf;xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system;xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" "/system/pulseaudio" "IOR: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"
...
Comment 4 Juergen Rose 2012-04-08 14:21:42 UTC
Rebooting does not help either. If I start only gdm after a reboot, I see that during one minute /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state increases until almost 600 MB:

root@condor:/root(23)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 2583893 Apr  8 16:17 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
root@condor:/root(24)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 82832850 Apr  8 16:17 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
root@condor:/root(25)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 152440125 Apr  8 16:17 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
root@condor:/root(26)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 232302161 Apr  8 16:17 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
root@condor:/root(27)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 283295142 Apr  8 16:17 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
root@condor:/root(28)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 370297443 Apr  8 16:18 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
root@condor:/root(29)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 455444865 Apr  8 16:18 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
root@condor:/root(30)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 537464727 Apr  8 16:18 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
root@condor:/root(31)# ll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------ 1 gdm gdm 537464727 Apr  8 16:18 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
Comment 5 iGentoo 2012-04-09 02:13:15 UTC
I have two problem after rebuilding the world:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/408857
https://bugs.gentoo.org/411237


du -h /home/XXXXXX/.gconfd/saved_state /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------. 1 XXXXXX XXXXXX 661M Apr  9 08:59 /home/Alphat/.gconfd/saved_state
-rwx------. 1 gdm    gdm    462M Apr  9 08:51 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state

top:
8235 gdm       20   0 1178m 1.1g 2632 R  99.1 18.8   5:50.54 gconfd-2
8870 XXXXXX    20   0 1307m 1.2g 2536 R  99.1 21.0   1:39.92 gconfd-2   

/home/XXXXXX/.xsession-errors:
GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `***************': Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0


Do the following steps:
1. Rebuild gnome-base/gconf-3.2.3 with USE="-orbit";
2. Delete /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state and ~/.gconfd/saved_state;
3. Reboot.

Everything seems fine, now.
Why?

emerge --info gconf dbus glib orbit

Portage 2.2.0_alpha100 (hardened/linux/amd64/selinux, gcc-4.6.2, glibc-2.15, 3.3.1-custom x86_64)
=================================================================
                        System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.3.1-custom-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:15:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 3.1.7 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p24
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2-r1
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.7
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.7-r5
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.9.9.3
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.6
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.3 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15::custom
Repositories: gentoo systemd custom
Installed sets: @custom-initramfs-rebuild, @custom-protected, @custom-selibs-rebuild
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Wall -Wextra -march=native -pipe -O3 -fno-tree-vectorize"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-Wall -Wextra -march=native -pipe -O3 -fno-tree-vectorize"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox selinux sesandbox sfperms split-elog split-log strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync webrsync-gpg xattr"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.163.com/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--sort-section=alignment"
LINGUAS="en en_US zh zh_CN"
MAKEOPTS="V=1 -j10"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9ef"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/systemd /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://mirrors.xmu.edu.cn/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa amd64 audit bash-completion berkdb bzip2 c++0x cairo caps cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri gdbm gmp gnome gpm gtk gtk3 hardened iconv ipv6 jit jpeg jpeg2k justify mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly open_perms opengl openmp pam pcre png pppd pulseaudio qt4 readline selinux session sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs systemd tcpd threads tiff unicode urandom vim-syntax xattr xinetd xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DRACUT_MODULES="btrfs caps dmsquash-live gensplash livenet lvm nbd nfs plymouth ssh-client syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US zh zh_CN" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

=================================================================
                        Package Settings
=================================================================

gnome-base/gconf-3.2.3 was built with the following:
USE="introspection (multilib) policykit (selinux) -debug -doc -ldap -orbit"


sys-apps/dbus-1.4.20 was built with the following:
USE="X (multilib) (selinux) -debug -doc -static-libs -test"
CFLAGS="-Wall -Wextra -march=native -pipe -O3 -fno-tree-vectorize -rdynamic"
CXXFLAGS="-Wall -Wextra -march=native -pipe -O3 -fno-tree-vectorize -rdynamic"


dev-libs/glib-2.30.3 was built with the following:
USE="fam (multilib) (selinux) xattr -debug -doc -static-libs -systemtap -test -utils"


gnome-base/orbit-2.14.19-r1 was built with the following:
USE="(multilib) (selinux) -debug -doc -test"
Comment 6 iGentoo 2012-04-09 05:07:48 UTC
Many other distributions use DBUS for IPC instead of ORBit.
Comment 7 Juergen Rose 2012-04-09 08:55:33 UTC
Hi Alphat-PC,

thank you for your hint. If the current revdep-rebuild (due to downgrading from libcurl.so.5.2.0 to libcurl.so.4.2.0) will finished, I will test it. But btw., why a gconfd compiled with the orbit flag does not work anymore since last thursday?
Comment 8 Juergen Rose 2012-04-09 13:35:44 UTC
It looks, if it would work now with gconf without orbit:

root@condor:/usr/src(43)# emerge --info gconf dbus glib orbit
Portage 2.1.10.56 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.3.1 x86_64)
=================================================================
                        System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.3.1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p24
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.7-r5
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.9.9.3
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.4.7, 4.5.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.6
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.3 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.14.1-r2
Repositories: gentoo lordvan x11 bicatali science arcon java-overlay sunrise local x-cpan g-octave
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1 skype-eula googleearth AdobeFlash-10.3 cadsoft Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr"
FFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="de fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/lordvan /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/bicatali /var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/arcon /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /var/lib/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage /var/lib/cpan /var/lib/g-octave"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="64bit R X Xaw3d a52 aac accessibility acl acpi admin afs alsa amd64 ao apache2 applet archive arpack asf aspell assistant atlas audacious audiofile automap automount bash-completion berkdb blas blast bluetooth bluray boo boost branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cg cgi chm cli consolekit corba cracklib crypt css cuda cups curl cxx daap db dbase dbi dbm dbus declarative designer devhelp device-mapper dga dia dirac djvu doc dri ds2490 ds9097 ds9097u dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dynamicplugin eds egl elf emacs emboss emf encode epiphany evo examples exif expat extensions extra extras faac faad fam ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fortran95 fpx fts3 fuse galago garmin gcj gd gdal gdbm gdu gedit geoip geolocation geos gfortran gif gimp ginac git glade glib glpk gml gmp gmtsuppl gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm grammar graphics graphtft graphviz grass gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gudev guile harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hdri http httpd hvm hwdb iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb inotify ipod ipv6 irda ithreads jabber jadetex java java6 jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kate kdrive kerberos kpathsea kqemu kvm ladspa lame lapack latex latex3 lcms ldap lensfun libffi libgda libnotify libsamplerate lirc live lm_sensors lua lzo mad mail maildir mapnik math matroska media-library mkl mmx mmxext mng modules mono motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer mtp mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networking networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntp numpy obex objc ocaml ocr octave odbc ogdi ogg ole openexr opengl openmp overview pae pam pango pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png podcast policykit portaudio posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectm projectx pstricks pulseaudio python python-bindings q16 q32 qemu qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reiserfs reports rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool sage samba sasl schroedinger science sdk sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop server session shout sip slang slp smbclient smp sms sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg svm swig sysfs szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs tgif theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tools truetype udev unicode usb userlocales utempter vaapi video virtualbox vorbis wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xemacs xext xft xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yaml zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="canon" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DRACUT_MODULES="caps lvm mdraid syslog" DVB_CARDS="tda10045 tda10046lifeview" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd dlight enterprise ergonomics groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler ruby websvccommon xml" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nouveau vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

=================================================================
                        Package Settings
=================================================================

gnome-base/gconf-3.2.3 was built with the following:
USE="doc introspection ldap (multilib) policykit -debug -orbit"


sys-apps/dbus-1.4.20 was built with the following:
USE="X doc (multilib) -debug (-selinux) -static-libs -test"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -rdynamic"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -rdynamic"


dev-libs/glib-2.30.3 was built with the following:
USE="doc fam (multilib) static-libs xattr -debug (-selinux) -systemtap -test -utils"


gnome-base/orbit-2.14.19-r1 was built with the following:
USE="doc (multilib) -debug -test"

root@condor:/usr/src(44)# lll /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state  ~rose/.gconfd/saved_state 
19404834 0 -rwx------ 1 rose users 0 Apr  8 16:15 /home/rose/.gconfd/saved_state*
  114914 0 -rwx------ 1 gdm  gdm   0 Apr  8 16:48 /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state*
Comment 9 Juergen Rose 2012-04-09 15:45:19 UTC
On an other systems I still have a gconfd compiled with the orbit flag. I just rebooted the system twice and started gdm and logged in without any problems. The log files stay small:

root@caiman:/root(3)# emerge -pvD gconf 

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] gnome-base/gconf-3.2.3  USE="doc introspection ldap orbit policykit -debug" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
root@caiman:/root(4)# du -s /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/* ~rose/.gconfd/saved_state 
32      /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
12      /home/rose/.gconfd/saved_state
root@caiman:/root(5)# du -s /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/* ~rose/.gconfd/saved_state 
24      /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
24      /home/rose/.gconfd/saved_state
root@caiman:/root(6)# du -s /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/* ~rose/.gconfd/saved_state 
24      /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state
32      /home/rose/.gconfd/saved_state

Has anybody an idea, why orbit makes on some systems problems and on other not?
Comment 10 Thomas Scheiblauer 2012-04-10 08:15:52 UTC
I have the same problem after rebuilding @world. "saved_state" files fill up and I'm not able to log into any account, even newly created ones.
Comment 11 Thomas Scheiblauer 2012-04-10 08:29:31 UTC
... disabling the "orbit" useflag of gnome-base/gconf as suggested above helps.
Comment 12 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-04-11 05:35:24 UTC
1. If you built gconf with USE=orbit, you might have the buggy libbonobo-2.32.1 release installed. As a result, it has been masked some time ago, and downgrading to the latest unmasked version (2.24.3) may solve the problem.

2. Alternatively, try gconf with USE=-orbit.
Comment 13 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-04-11 06:25:33 UTC
In gconf-3.2.3-r1, USE=-orbit is now the default as a workaround to keep more people from hitting this issue.

However, this bug should be kept open until we understand why the orbit IPC backend sometimes fails so spectacularly.

>*gconf-3.2.3-r1 (11 Apr 2012)
>
>  11 Apr 2012; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
>  +gconf-3.2.3-r1.ebuild, +files/gconf-3.2.3-shutdown-crash.patch:
>  Have USE=-orbit by default to work around bug #411237 (enormously overgrown
>  ~/.gconfd/saved_state). Fix a crash when USE=-orbit.
Comment 14 Thomas Scheiblauer 2012-04-11 08:19:40 UTC
@Alexandre Rostovtsev: I'm definitely using gnome-base/libbonobo-2.24.3
Comment 15 Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-04-11 21:08:22 UTC
Alexandre already knows I've hit this bug, and it's frustrated me for almost a week now.  I do plan on actually figuring out what's going on, but I should mention that I don't even have libbonobo installed.
Comment 16 Alexander Weber 2012-06-06 13:33:05 UTC
I have the same issue on my stable system. But the stable Version gnome-base/gconf-2.32.4 does not have USE=orbit :(

emerge -e world or test using new created user did not helped.
Comment 17 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-07-05 21:35:03 UTC
*** Bug 424982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 EoD 2012-07-25 12:24:20 UTC
I had the same issue after upgrading dev-libs/glib-2.32.4 without upgrading dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.32.4 . After I upgraded gdbus-codegen it stopped filling up my ~/.gconfd/ (although I still get segfaults from gconfd).
Comment 19 Carl Michal 2012-08-16 18:35:03 UTC
I hit what seems to be this bug on two amd64 systems that updated world last week, after several months without updates.

I'm using gnome2 stable (2.32).  The symptoms I see are that when trying to log in, ~/.gconfd/saved_state grows enormously and gconfd-2 eats cpu. Also, general protection errors like this:

gconfd-2[28854] general protection ip:7f79c0d27531 sp:7fff12ee0ef8 error:0 in libc-2.14.1.so[7f79c0ca7000+184000]

are seen in dmesg.

.xsession-errors shows that most anything that is trying to talk to gconf times out.

It turns out that I can make this problem go away if I replace /usr/lib64/libgconf.so-4.1.5 with the corresponding file from the gconf-2.32.4 package from tinderbox (installing the whole package from tinderbox is fine too, but this one file seems do to the trick).

I've tried a number of things: I've downgraded glibc from 2.15-r1 to 2.14.1-r3, downgraded gcc from 4.5.3 to 4.4.6, installed binary gcc, libtool and binutils packages from tinderbox to recompile gconf, but no matter what I do, a gconf that I compile on my own now shows this problem.

I see another thing that I imagine is related as it started at the same time:
-when trying to build deskbar-applet, python crashes with the same kind of general protection fault during the configure stage.

Is there anything else in the toolchain or the configuration of the toolchain that might be related?
Comment 20 Carl Michal 2012-08-16 21:58:29 UTC
Ok, this is obscure, but here is the answer:

crossdev installs:
/usr/share/crossdev/include/site/linux-gnu
/usr/share/crossdev/include/site/linux-gnueabi

each of which define:

ac_cv_alignof_CORBA_pointer=4

but this is wrong, it needs to be 8 (on amd64 anyway).

When orbit is built, it uses the cached value of 4, and puts that into 
/usr/include/orbit-2.0/orbit/orbit-config.h

When gconf is built against this orbit-config, it shows the symptoms we've been seeing.

So, the workaround for those who need it is:
1) change the 4 to an 8 in the two files mentioned above (or remove crossdev) then rebuild orbit and gconf
2) kill off any linger gconfd-2 processes
3) remove your ~/.gconfd/saved-state
and all should be well.

This would seem to be a bug in crossdev. Why are these in crossdev anyway?
Comment 21 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-08-19 18:21:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #20)
> Ok, this is obscure, but here is the answer:
> 
> crossdev installs:
> /usr/share/crossdev/include/site/linux-gnu
> /usr/share/crossdev/include/site/linux-gnueabi
> 
> each of which define:
> 
> ac_cv_alignof_CORBA_pointer=4
> 
> but this is wrong, it needs to be 8 (on amd64 anyway).
> 
> When orbit is built, it uses the cached value of 4, and puts that into 
> /usr/include/orbit-2.0/orbit/orbit-config.h
> 
> When gconf is built against this orbit-config, it shows the symptoms we've
> been seeing.

Thanks for your investigation! I've added crossdev developers to the CC list.

However, I cannot reproduce the issue with crossdev-20120721. In other words: crossdev-20120721 does have ac_cv_alignof_CORBA_pointer=4 in /usr/share/crossdev/include/site/linux-gnu*; but after installing crossdev-20120721 and re-emerging orbit-2.14.19-r1, I still have the correct amd64 definition

#define ORBIT_ALIGNOF_CORBA_POINTER      8

in /usr/include/orbit-2.0/orbit/orbit-config.h

What version of crossdev are you using? Could you please attach orbit's configure log and verbose build log? (In other words, please emerge orbit with MAKEOPTS="V=1" FEATURES="keepwork keeptemp", and attach /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/orbit-2.14.19-r1/temp/build.log and /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/orbit-2.14.19-r1/work/ORBit2-2.14.19/config.log)
Comment 22 Carl Michal 2012-08-20 01:33:15 UTC
You're right. With crossdev-20120721 this problem is gone. The configure script for orbit no longer pulls in those site scripts.
But with crossdev-20120531 (stable), the problem is as I described. I was wondering why a non-cross-compile build was pulling in configuration supplied by crossdev...
Comment 23 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-08-20 02:47:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 427184 ***
Comment 24 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-08-20 02:50:18 UTC
Commit message: Stabilize for all
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/crossdev/crossdev-20120721.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Comment 25 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-08-20 15:23:07 UTC
*** Bug 432052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***