Broken gnome installation

["Abeesh C Basheer" <rappayi hotmail com>]

hi
I installed gnome-desktop using garnome-0.22.0 and removing gnome-appelets, 
gnome-utils in Makefile as they did not compile. The mail is bit lengthy. So 
the summary is that gconf is not saving keys.

Now the details:

On startup metacity gives the following error:
> Window manager warning: 0 stored in GConf key 
> >/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces is not a reasonable number of 
> workspaces, >current maximum is 32
> Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Atlanta": Error on line 1 
> char 1: >Document was empty or contained only whitespace
> Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Crux": Error on line 1 char 
> 1: >Document was empty or contained only whitespace
> Window manager error: Could not find a theme! Be sure 
> >/home/rahul/garnome/share/metacity/themes exists and contains the usual 
> >themes.Window manager warning: Log level 16: CORBA_ORB_destroy: ORB still 
> has 2 >refs.
> Window manager warning: Log level 16: ORB: a total of 7 refs to 6 ORB 
> objects were >leaked

I tried linking $GARNOME/share/themes to $GARNOME/share/metacity/themes but 
of no use

On further trial and error I found that "gconftool-2 -R \" doesn't list any 
keys.
So I tried manually installing them by giving gconftool-2 
--makefile-install-rule /home/rahul/garnome/etc/gconf/schemas/*  in the 
proper GCONF variable ,which didn't work.
then I tried installing schemas individually in  a for loop by
@for i in $($(wildcard *.schemas)) ; do \
               (gconftool-2 --install-schema-file 
/home/abi/garnome/etc/gconf/s
chemas/$$i).
Now the keys are installed but after sometime they are lost. ie the keys are 
not saved :((

The relevant lines in path file in the exact order is:
> xml:readonly:/home/rahul/garnome/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
> xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf
> xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults

I have searched through most of the garnome/gnome archives but couldn't get 
any solution.
Any help is appreciated. thanks in advance

--abeesh

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