Comment 7 for bug 24170

After doing a bit of digging and reading :

http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2003/01/msg00597.html

I've tried stopping inetd. Still doesn't come up, but a strace of
gnome-keybinding-preferences now hangs on :

setresgid(-1, 1000, -1) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/themes", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGUSR2, {0x2aaab026ab50, [USR2], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART,
0x2aaaac432190}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
getuid() = 1000
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 13
fcntl(13, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl(13, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
lseek(13, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
fstat(13, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1463, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 1463, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 13, 0) = 0x2aaab036d000
lseek(13, 1463, SEEK_SET) = 1463
munmap(0x2aaab036d000, 1463) = 0
close(13) = 0
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 13
connect(13, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@/tmp/fam-billy-}, 110

Which makes me think that fam is involved as suggested by the debian posting.
Why the keybindings tool should be talking to fam I'm not sure... :-/