From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; zh-TW; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: I found that some of the icon images weren't correct, so trying to use preference -> themes to modify it, but I got an error message as follows: ===================================================================== The default theme schemas could not be found on. This means that you probably don't have metacity installed, or that your gconf is configured incorrectly. ===================================================================== Please help me to solve it. Thanks a lot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Preference 2. Theme Setting 3. ... Actual Results: The default theme schemas could not be found on. This means that you probably don't have metacity installed, or that your gconf is configured incorrectly. Expected Results: It should let me choose a theme Additional info:
Do you have metacity installed? How did you install your GNOME packages? From the distro binaries or self compiled? You could try to do 'mv .gconf .gconf.old' after logging out. This will give you a fresh set of settings when logging back out. If that solves it maybe a 'diff -urN .gconf.old .gconf' will give some clues...
Reverting from libgnome 2.6.0-3 to 2.6.0-2 seems to eliminate this problem. Prior to that, completely removing the user and recreating it still let the user with a seemingly broken gconf. Users who logged in once before the libgnome 2.6.0-3 update was installed seemed to work alright, but if there was no .gconf dir for them, the one that was created would be busted after that update.
Hi, Not a long term solution but if you do this: chmod -R 777 /etc/gconf - the problem is solved. I'm sure there is a nicer way to do this (and more secure), but at least it works! Regards D.
Hi, Red Hat Linux 9 is very old and now unsupported. If you can reproduce this problem with a recent version of RHEL or Fedora Core, feel free to reopen this bug.