Bug 208386

Summary:	GNOME screwed after upgrade
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	GConf2	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Description David Woodhouse 2006-09-28 10:32:38 UTC

After upgrading a system from FC5 to rawhide, GNOME was mostly non-functional.
New users got a black background and an _empty_ panel, with messages in
.xsession-errors from gnome-panel, suggesting that 'gconftool-2 --load' has not
been run. Running gnome-theme-manager failed, suggesting that metacity isn't
installed (which it was, of course) or that gconf was misconfigured.

Removing the contents of /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults and replacing the entire
directory with the contents of same from a newly-installed rawhide machine was
sufficient to fix this.

But these files don't seem to be owned by any package, and I can't see how they
get created.

Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2006-09-28 15:14:18 UTC

Found this in /root/upgrade.log...

Upgrading system-config-display - 1.0.45-1.noarch
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30456: line 2: [-x: command not found
Must set the GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE environment variable
error: %postun(gconf-editor-2.10.0-2.ppc) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Cache file created successfully.
Must set the GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE environment variable
error: %postun(gconf-editor-2.10.0-3.ppc) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
warning: /etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl saved as
/etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl.rpmsave
warning: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources saved as /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.rpmsave

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-09-28 18:53:03 UTC

Looks like this bug 152238.

Comment 3 David Woodhouse 2006-09-28 19:42:21 UTC

Would that explain the whole thing? Or does bug 152238 only explain what I see
in comment 1 and not the original bug?

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-03-06 19:09:07 UTC

there was a problem a while back where gconftool-2 was segfaulting randomly.  I
think that would explain this behavior.

The bug was a kernel bug, but I can't seem to find it right now.

I'm going to close this bug because i'm trying to sweep up bugzilla today.  If
this is something you've hit again, please reopen the report, because it sounds
pretty serious.