Bug#352715: gnome-control-center: strange behaviour of /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon

[Fabian Greffrath]

package: gnome-control-center
version: 1:2.12.2-2
severity: serious

Hi!

I want to change my keyboard settings in 'gnome-keyboard-properties'.
Whenever I change one setting in the 'Layouts' or 'Layout Settings' Tab,
the look of the window changes as if something changed my gtk-theme.
This even effects my desktop icons! After about 5 seconds, everything is
back to normal.

I found out, that '/usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon' is
reloaded everytime I change one of the options. I even got
'/usr/bin/gnome-session' to crash, by changing some options rapidly
without waiting for the settings-daemon to be completely reloaded!

After logging in again, GNOME kept crashing and crashing due to
'/usr/bin/gnome-session' and I could not manage to get it running again.
`killall gconfd-2 && rm -rf ~/.gconf*` finally helped!
I do not know if this is reproducable, because I did not try...

Please try to fix this.

Thank you very much,
Fabian Greffrath