Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.14.2-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Dear Maintainer,
[I am not sure against which package to file this bug report (/var/log/messages
says 'gnome-settings-daemon' has problems, or perhaps 'gnome-session'? Or
'dconf' - but which exact dconf package?). If you have ideas what might be
really causing this crazy freeze, please re-assign this bug report to the
appropriate package(s). Sorry & thx for your work then, I am a newb. Thank you
very much.]
* Symptoms
I have literally millions of identical log entries of this type:
cat /var/log/messages | grep /run/user/1000/dconf/user
Jun 6 15:54:50 laptopacer01 gnome-session[3275]:
(gnome-settings-daemon:3354): dconf-CRITICAL **:
unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user':
Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
It brings the X system to a total halt. Perhaps because of:
cat /var/log/messages | grep /run/user/1000/dconf/user | wc
11395103 227899102 2277048187
* What led up to the situation?
My system is dist-upgraded from wheezy to jessie (following the manual
exactly), and that upgrade seemed to have gone fine (Kudos for that
possibility, I am pretty impressed!). Not sure if the problem was already there
before (had not used the system in a long time). Not sure when exactly it
happens; but definitely once after purging obsolete packages, and then 'apt-get
upgrade'; and later once, after ending eclipse.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
The error explosion stopped when I did a
chmod a+rwx /run/user/1000/dconf/user
or even
rm /run/user/1000/dconf/user
but only after
killall Xorg
I could continue to work. After logging back in.
My current workaround is:
echo "sudo chown andreas:andreas /run/user/1000/dconf/user" >
/usr/local/bin/dconf-repair.sh
chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/dconf-repair.sh
So whenever it happens, I quickly switch to a textscreen console, and execute
'dconf-repair.sh'.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Then I can continue to work - until it happens again. But I have to restart X,
programs, loose data, etc. Not nice.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
That this problem gets fixed, and never re-appears ;-) How can I help with
that?
* Ideas what might help
I am wondering if I should perhaps put a cron job that is executing that
'dconf-repair.sh' every 10 seconds? Brute force solution - and would perhaps
not even help, because with the past freeze events, it was only all good again
after 'killall Xorg' - and killing my X every 10 seconds is not the way to go
*lol*
How to identify which script/program/package is causing it? Is there a way to
install a watcher, which logs all the programs which are changing a specific
file?
Thanks a lot!
P.S.:
Yes, I asked on the mailinglist https://lists.debian.org/debian-
user/2016/06/msg00275.html
Yes, I know this or a similar bug had been reported before, but perhaps my
workaround & my ideas up there might help someone?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.22.0-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.14.1-1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-2.1
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1
ii libcolord2 1.2.1-1+b2
ii libcups2 1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u4
ii libgeocode-glib0 3.14.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1
ii libgnome-desktop-3-10 3.14.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 215-17+deb8u4
ii libgweather-3-6 3.14.1-1
ii liblcms2-2 2.6-3+b3
ii libnm-glib4 0.9.10.0-7
ii libnm-util2 0.9.10.0-7
ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2
ii libnspr4 2:4.10.7-1+deb8u1
ii libnss3 2:3.17.2-1.1+deb8u2
ii libnss3-1d 2:3.17.2-1.1+deb8u2
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.0.1-2
ii libpam-systemd 215-17+deb8u4
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-8
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 5.0-13
ii libpulse0 5.0-13
ii librsvg2-2 2.40.5-1+deb8u2
ii libupower-glib3 0.99.1-3.2
ii libwacom2 0.8-1
ii libwayland-client0 1.6.0-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii libxi6 2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii nautilus-data 3.14.1-2
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii pulseaudio 5.0-13
Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii gnome-screensaver 3.6.1-4
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:3.14.3-1
ii mutter [x-window-manager] 3.14.4-1~deb8u1
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+3+b1
-- no debconf information
