I can confirm, removing stale configuration makes gconfd to behave
"normally".
I had exactly the same problem after fresh installing 8.10 with /home
partition from 8.04 retained. gconfd was constantly eating ~30% of CPU,
effectively draining the battery of my laptop in 40 minutes. I asked on
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 63090 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63090
I can confirm this is present in final 7.04 - just cann't unmount my USB
HDD.
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Nautilus and hal can't umount usb hd disk
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99498
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