I just experienced this problem on Debian Jessie AMD64 with MATE. mate-panel process devoured 16GB of RAM and 15GB of swap, I had to reboot PC from terminal. on ~/.xsession-errors file I found never-ending stream of error messages: (mate-panel:1490): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
I applied chmod: chmod u+rx /run/user/1000/gvfs Result of command you asked (after chmod): pioruns@debian-desktop:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/dconf/user -rw------- 1 pioruns pioruns 2 Nov 13 22:28 /run/user/1000/dconf/user Will this chmod resolve problem, it won't back again? What is a source of this problem? Regards pioruns
