Hi all,

I've got a nagging problem on my Slackware 9.1 maintained with Swaret.
I updated my packages using Swaret as usual and I don't know what went
wrong but my window manager session (XFCE 4.0.3) closes automatically
after a certain amount of time. This is what my syslog says :

gconfd (jrn-1231): Received signal 15,
shutting down cleanly

So it seems it's a gconf (Gnome) problem. I tried killing gconfd but it
respawns itself after a few minutes. I've also deleted all my .gconf and
..gconfd config files, to no avail.

How can I fix the problem without removing all Gnome packages (I use too
many of them to get rid of Gnome)?

Has anyone seen that problem before?



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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:47:19 +0100, Jay <Jay@free.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,

Hello

>
> I've got a nagging problem on my Slackware 9.1 maintained with Swaret.
> I updated my packages using Swaret as usual and I don't know what went
> wrong but my window manager session (XFCE 4.0.3) closes automatically
> after a certain amount of time. This is what my syslog says :
>
> gconfd (jrn-1231): Received signal 15,
> shutting down cleanly
>
> So it seems it's a gconf (Gnome) problem. I tried killing gconfd but it
> respawns itself after a few minutes. I've also deleted all my .gconf and
> .gconfd config files, to no avail.
>

You didn't actually "delete" them did you? just renaming them
has the same but safer effect. This probably doesn't matter though,
as I think they're autogenerated.
More appropriate would be to rename the config file of the offending app,
XFCE.

> Has anyone seen that problem before?

I had a vaguely similar problem, with xmms and the songchange plugin.
I set it to shutdown at the end of the song, and also had it start playing
on the next song at powerup. Can you guess what happened?
Yup, I needed the rescue disk... It was like initdefault:0
doh!

Something similar may be happening in your setup, I hope you find it.

--
Laurence