Bug#568460: strange gconf schema failure

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 04 février 2010 à 15:53 -0500, Joey Hess a écrit :
> This was happening yesterday with version 2.28.3-1.
> 
> joey at gnu:~>gnome-power-manager 
> 
> (gnome-power-manager:3480): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_status_icon_is_embedded: assertion `GTK_IS_STATUS_ICON (status_icon)' failed
> TI:14:02:33	TH:0x927e9f8	FI:gpm-manager.c	FN:gpm_manager_init,1887
>  - no gconf schema installed!

Was it happening during the upgrade (which would be expected) or just
like that (which would be a bug)?

> I tried upgrading to -2 and running it again:
> 
> sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager && gnome-power-manager
> 
> Same failure after upgrade. However, when I tried to run it again 
> a minute later, it worked. Apparently something went and fixed up
> the problem in the background, or it is failing intermittently,
> or something.

After an upgrade, the gconfd daemon reloads its databases after at most
30 seconds, so it’s probably this behavior that you witnessed.

It doesn’t explain why this schemas would not have been registered with
2.28.3-1; there was nothing of the like fixed in the upgrade.

Cheers,
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