Comment 0 for bug 1028416

Unfortunately not much more informations at this time but this is what I have.

1. At some point the gnome-settings-daemon will start utilising about 95% of one CPU core, iotop will show dconf-services hovering around 3 place and lsof will show show gnome-settings-daemon using .config/dconf/user.
2. This has happened five times now every time on a fairly busy system e.g Firefox and Chromium multiple tab some with active content like flash and html5, one or more virtualbox machines and a terminal or two.
3. the first three times were weeks a part but the last two was on the same day after a reboot for the kernel update.
4. sudo kill -9 PID of gnome-settings-daemon restores the system to normal.
5. Afterwards the .config/dconf/ folder will have several user.????? files.

If you need me to collect specific information next time let know.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 24 12:44:59 2012
InstallationMedia: This
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)