Bug 682584

Created attachment 482555 [details]
mail-notification error png

Created attachment 482557 [details]
mail-notification gdb

It looks like the GConf schemas weren't installed correctly. This is a fresh F15 installation right? I'll look into it ASAP

Yes, it was a fresh install.  Thank You.

I just tried to reproduce this issue using a freshly installed F15-Alpha virtual machine (desktop spin) and mail-notification started just fine here. Did you use some other spin like the KDE one to install F15-Alpha ?

Just tried with the F15-Alpha-KDE spin and mail-notification seems to work fine with that as well..

Did you already try to run mail-notification after rebooting the machine?

After applying the updates mail-notification now seems to be working.  It wasn't a KDE install, it was a straight up Gnome 3 install to HD.  Thanks for your attention.

Reproducible with mail-notification-5.4-45.fc16.x86_64

$ mail-notification 

** (mail-notification:4205): WARNING **: cannot find default value of configuration key "/apps/mail-notification/commands/new-mail/enabled"

and lots of others.

Apparently, a reboot made it work. This isn't normal for GConf.

You could update the RPM scriptlet sections:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GConf

Michael, thanks for the hint.

The mail-notification spec file already contains the required %post instructions to install the GConf2 schema, but for some reason this seems to got broken on recent Fedora releases.

The %post section of mail-notification.spec currently contains this:

%post
export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule \
  %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/%{name}.schemas >/dev/null || :

This isn't the RPM macro which is mentioned in the packaging snippets, but looking at /etc/rpm/macros.gconf2 the exact same code is also executed when using the %gconf_schema_upgrade macro, so I think the real cause is somewhere else.

Were you using a complete clean Fedora installation before trying to install mail-notification? And what package groups/spin did you select/use during installation?

Created attachment 540322 [details]
console output (with mail-notification-5.4-45.fc16.x86_64 fresh install)

I'm using a normal GNOME Desktop install from DVD ISO image.

After uninstalling mail-notification package again, rebooting once more, reinstalling mail-notification package, the problem is reproducible. Next thing I'll try after submitting this comment is to log out and back in (as an alternative to rebooting).

After logging out and back in into GNOME Shell, a "Mail Notification Properties" window opened automatically, and afterwards the problem is gone.

kill -HUP $(pidof gconfd-2)   does not fix the issue, but killing gconfd-2 does.

Another test a few minutes after a fresh install of mail-notification, when it doesn't start:

  $ gconftool-2 --get /apps/mail-notification/commands/new-mail/enabled
  No value set for `/apps/mail-notification/commands/new-mail/enabled'

Then after relogin without touching/closing the open "Mail Notification Properties" window:

  $ gconftool-2 --get /apps/mail-notification/commands/new-mail/enabled
  false

mail-notification-5.4-48.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mail-notification-5.4-48.fc16

Package mail-notification-5.4-48.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing mail-notification-5.4-48.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-17330/mail-notification-5.4-48.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

mail-notification-5.4-48.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.