Bug#443366: gconfd eats my config on every logout/login cycle

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:41 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > my ~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml is about 2MB in size, after logout/login it is
> > just a few k big and I am left with a gnome-default setup
> > 
> > this happens reproducably and also across reboots (and did never happen
> > 		since early gnome2 to me)
> 
>  I think you recently corrupted your filesystem; what might be happening

Something evil could very well have happened in the last years to the
gconf db.

>  here is that your GConf schemas are broken and gconfd automatically
>  removes schema-less entries.

Then this behavior is broken. After all gconf neither displays a
warning/error when it is being started with the (before) intact/working
db and is also happily serving the right settings to all the
applications.

>  If you find out why this happens exactly or what we could improve in
>  this case, let us know.

Will do, maybe .20 will change things to the better...
Soeren
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