Comment 155 for bug 36581

I've just been subject to this bug. I'm using FC3+all updates. rpm installed is
gamin-0.0.25-1.FC3 and I'm on an 64-bit AMD platform. I fixed the problem by
restarting my X server. Killing the process on its own just resulted in it
respawning and, after a short period, using nearly 100% cpu again.

Unfortunately all I thought to do was strace the offending gam_server process.
It was spinning trying to read the file

/usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

and a couple of other files from that directory, which don't exist on my system.
Their correct path does not have 'local' therein.