I think my gconf schemas may have become corrupt. When I try to run gnome-theme-manager I get an error dialog which says "The default theme schemas could not be found on your system. This means that you probably don't have metacity installed, or that your gconf is configured incorrectly." Other gnome control center managers (like keyboard properties) crash with a generic error when run and others (like mouse properties) don't save changes. Furthermore, mouse and keyboard default settings seem to have changed (keypress repeat no longer works and mouse acceleration is super fast).
I've read over the troubleshooting techniques on http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ but can't find anything that tells me what's wrong. Here is some syslog from trying to run gnome-theme-manager. -------- May 25 01:21:32 localhost gconfd (tangent-8200): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 8200 user 'tangent' May 25 01:21:32 localhost gconfd (tangent-8200): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 May 25 01:21:32 localhost gconfd (tangent-8200): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/tangent/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 May 25 01:21:32 localhost gconfd (tangent-8200): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 May 25 01:21:32 localhost gconfd (tangent-8200): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3 May 25 01:21:32 localhost gconfd (tangent-8200): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4 May 25 01:25:35 localhost gconfd (tangent-8200): Exiting May 25 01:25:50 localhost gconfd (tangent-8317): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 8317 user 'tangent' May 25 01:25:50 localhost gconfd (tangent-8317): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 May 25 01:25:50 localhost gconfd (tangent-8317): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/tangent/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 May 25 01:25:50 localhost gconfd (tangent-8317): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 May 25 01:25:50 localhost gconfd (tangent-8317): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3 May 25 01:25:50 localhost gconfd (tangent-8317): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4 ------- I'm using Ubuntu dapper with gconf 2.14.0 installed. I've tried reinstalling gconf, gnome control center, and metacity. I've also tried removing ~/.gconf with no effect. Can anyone tell me how to verify if the schemas are corrupt or how to proceed with fixing this? Cheers _______________________________________________ gconf-list mailing list gconf-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list