Thank you for the work on that. That's normal that the CPU usage stops when gdb attach the process because it stops it. The backtrace looks like a problem, it lacks details to be useful though. Could you try to build a debug package for gconf2 as explained on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash?
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