right, as you said it's likely a buggy client, what you can do is use gconftool to dump the gconf database and diff the dumps
** Changed in: gconf (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gconf (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777558 Title: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs