'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 05/10/10 09:35 did gyre and gimble: > Okay, doesn't help though. gconf-helper was clearly running before > unloading (sorry forgot to copy paste that, but yes it was). Was not > running when unloaded, was running again when loaded again. > > ngoonee at ngoonee-laptop ~ % pactl unload-module 9 > ngoonee at ngoonee-laptop ~ % ps -e | grep gconf > 5276 ? 00:00:04 gconfd-2 > ngoonee at ngoonee-laptop ~ % pactl load-module module-gconf > 21 > ngoonee at ngoonee-laptop ~ % ps -e | grep gconf > 5276 ? 00:00:04 gconfd-2 > 27689 ? 00:00:00 gconf-helper Hmm, in that case, I'm pretty stumped. To be honest I want to ultimately replace the gconf dep for paprefs... I did make a start on a module-loader that acted as a fancy replacement for loading modules but rather than use gconf externally, it just used our build in storage and made editing of the modules available via a protocol extension. If I complete this work, it'll solve your problem but by the same token it's not a solution for now. I can't honestly say what the problem is here. I'm guessing it is in some way related to some kind of main loop integration but I really don't know the gconf stuff (or the purpose of the helper) well enough to comment with any more detail :( Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]