On 03/22/2012 12:03 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-03-22 19:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >> greets, >> >> today I wanted to be clever and ran "emerge -e gnome" to rebuild all my >> gnome-3 desktop. >> >> Unfortunately things didn't get better from this. >> >> I can hardly logon, gconfd-2 produces high load and >> /var/lib/gdm/.gconfd/saved_state grows quickly to around 4 GB until it >> fills the disk :-( >> >> I removed that file while gdm was not running, no matter, it got created >> again ... > > addon: it seems full of pulseaudio-related lines ... maybe I should > rebuild that one now as well
Or delete it ;) If that doesn't work I would start by creating a new test user account and run gnome-3 from there. The problem may be caused by one of the zillion gnome config files in your home directory.
