[Debian-olpc-devel] Bug#576110: sucrose-0.88: broken gconf defaults file causes Sugar not to start up ("Unknown favorites layout: None")
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Thu Apr 1 12:52:46 UTC 2010
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:21:07PM +0000, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>GConf is returning None for /desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_layout.
>/usr/share/gconf/schemas/sugar.schemas contains a default setting
>("ring-layout"), but this doesn't get applied. In fact gconftool-2
>never reads any .schemas file, only
>/var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree.xml. The latter file contains
>several "directories" for for /desktop/sugar/..., but no "entries"
>whereas it has lots of entries for /apps/metacity/....
Above, coupled with your new info that the broken system had a
non-working loopback interface, makes me consider if this is a packaging
bug at all or perhaps just a local issue of a broken system:
Try run update-gconf-defaults (which I assume will regenerate those
files below /var/lib/gconf from the shipped ones below /usr/share/gconf)
and see if that fixes the system.
If so, I suspect you have revealed a bug in either gconf or debhelper in
that pakcage install does not fail if generating/updating those files
fails ((e.g. due to missing loopback).
...but even then there's still a remaining bug in upstream Sugar that it
has no internal default as fallback to querying gconf, I believe.
- Jonas
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