Comment 7 for bug 293535

Can confirm this using a /home with a user that was created using 8.04. I then reinstalled the system as 8.10 (keeping the old /home partition from 8.04). Creating a new user in 8.10 caused no gconfd-2 problems, but logging in as the old user instantly got me a gconfd-2 process eating away at the CPU (30-34% on a quad-core CPU). Renaming the ~/.gconf and ~/.gconf directories to something else fixed the problem, but of course also removed all desktop configuration as well.