On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 03:56 -0700, Robert Harryman wrote: > When upgrading my M9 to nv_87 I got the warning: > > "Cannot create the directory '/root/.gnome2/share/fonts' > This is needed to allow changing the mouse pointer theme." > > I ignored it and the upgrade appeared to succeed. > > -bob >
Also http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=225126&tstart=0 The error is from gnome-settings-daemon, which is being started probably because a package installation script runs gconftool-2 to install a GConf schema. The home directory for the root user was recently changed to "/root", which is not created by default. It does not need to exist. However, gnome-settings-daemon tries to create files in this non-existent directory, which obviously fails. I believe this is a bug in gnome-settings-daemon, since it should not be touching any files in the home directory at all when it is modifying the default GConf database.
