I realised that, as I hadn't seen this problem when I tested with an
8.10 LiveCD, this was likely to be some old settings getting in the way
of some new way of doing things in Intrepid. So I made a new user and
logged in as that user. Behold, problem gone.
After that it was a matter of bisecting c
I can confirm this one. I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, and since
the upgrade gconf2 is eating CPU. After installing glib debug symbols, I
got this stack trace for the rampant process:
(gdb) bt full
#0 0x7f7c59cb41cf in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#1 0x00
