Bug 975523

Summary:	cannot change any gnome preferences
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component:	dconf	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	19	CC:	mclasen, rhughes
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Description Jeff Bastian 2013-06-18 16:54:32 UTC

Description of problem:
I cannot change any settings under the Profile Preferences in gnome-terminal.  For example, I clicked the checkbox to disable "Use the system fixed width font" and it turned off for a split second, then it immediately turned back on.  Likewise with other preferences such as "Allow bold text"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-3.8.3-1.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
every time (?) (it happened on my daily system and in a fresh virtual machine)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch gnome-terminal
2. go to Edit -> Profile Preferences
3. try to change the font setting

Actual results:
cannot change any settings

Expected results:
allowed to change settings

Additional info:

Comment 1 Christian Persch 2013-06-20 12:29:12 UTC

This is a dconf problem, nothing to do with gnome-terminal itself.

Comment 2 Jeff Bastian 2013-06-24 14:40:59 UTC

Yes, I see now that I cannot change other settings either like the wallpaper.  Moving to dconf.

Comment 3 Jeff Bastian 2013-06-24 14:41:57 UTC

And I cannot add applications to the favorites list in gnome-shell.  My dconf database is acting like it's read-only.

Comment 4 Jeff Bastian 2013-06-25 13:11:30 UTC

The logs contained this error:

Jun 25 08:00:53 tarantula.localdomain /etc/gdm/Xsession[1685]: (gnome-settings-daemon:1900): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._g_2dfile_2derror_2dquark.Code17: Cannot open dconf database: invalid gvdb header


And my dconf database was corrupt (full of nothing but null bytes):

 ~]$ od ~/.config/dconf/user
0000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
*
0077300 000000
0077302


I removed my corrupt db and updated the glib2 package to glib2-2.36.3-2.fc19 and now I can change settings again.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 975521 ***