On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:54, Bernie Innocenti<ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > 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?!? ;-/
Wrong mailing list for volunteering for dropping GConf :p Is your jhbuild installing GConf-DBus? Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
