Package: libgconf2-4 Version: 2.12.1-8 Severity: important When a GNOME 1 application is started it auto starts a copy of gconfd-1 on behalf of the user who starts the app. If an application that requires gconfd-2 is subsequently started, the presence of an already running gconfd-1 process prevents the automatic startup of gconfd-2, and the application fails.
Example - my desktop uses Enlightenment as a WM. Starting Evolution after login succeeds as expected, and starts a gconfd-2 process. However, if I start GNUCash after login, a gconfd-1 process is started, and a subsequent attempt to start Evolution produces 3 successive error dialog boxes. The first telle me that an error occurred accessing config information for Evolution, the second tells me Evolution has crashed, and the third tells me an error occurred accessing config data for gnome_segv, which was started in response to the Evolution crash. As the copy of gconfd-1 persists after the invoking app (GNUCash in this case) was closed, this breaks gconfd-2 dependent applications for the remainder of the session, or until the user manually kills gconfd-1. Starting GNUCash after Evolution works correctly, as it is able to use a running gconfd-2 process. The gconfd-2 package shouls override gconfd-1 where it is installed so that all gconf reliant apps start gconfd-2 in preference. Tagged as important as it breaks apparently unrelated software on the system, though it's relatively easy to work around once you realise what's happening. Mike -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages libgconf2-4 depends on: ii gconf2-common 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1 GNOME XML library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime libgconf2-4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]