On 06/23/09 09:34, Edward Cherlin wrote: > I have been warned not to run sugar-jhbuild and Sugar packages on the > same system. I have not had sugar-jhbuild wreck my system, but I have > had a lot of issues with sugar-jhbuild working one day and not the > next when I make other changes to the system.
We have found one such issues yesterday, while testing the streamlined branch on Ubuntu Jaunty. My laptop usually boots off a Fedora 11 partition with the Sugar packages installed, where the GConf schemas for Sugar are installed in /etc/gconf/schemas/sugar.schemas. When Sugar starts, it happily uses the system GConf. When we did the same on Jaunty with _no_ system packages installed, the schemas were missing and the Sugar shell would crash mysteriously due to a bad default value for the favourites layout. I don't know how to add a locally installed schemas file without altering the system-wide database. The following commands are for the system-wide case: export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source` gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule install/etc/gconf/schemas/sugar.schemas If I change the path to point into the jhbuild install root, I get these obscure errors: -----cut----- $ export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=/home/bernie/src/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/install/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults $ gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule install/etc/gconf/schemas/sugar.schemas (gconftool-2:3489): GConf-WARNING **: Failed to load source "/home/bernie/src/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/install/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults": Couldn't resolve address for configuration source: Bad address `/home/bernie/src/sugar/sugar-jhbuild/install/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults' ** GConf:ERROR:gconftool.c:969:main: assertion failed: (err == NULL) Aborted -----cut----- Bah, I'm defeated. Why are we even using this GConf crap? Simple ini files were too easy to work with?!? ;-/ -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
