Re: [Evolution] Loose configuration settings

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

ah, and what do you know... I've already reported a gconf bug about this
very problem and even submitted a patch back in March :-)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108574

Jeff

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 14:27, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 14:13, guenther wrote:
> > > We were only cloning Outlook "features", we thought this was expected
> > > behaviour :-)
> >
> > *outch*
> >
> >
> > > unfortunately I have no idea what the problem is and I would tend to
> > > think that somehow gconfd is not actually saving the settings to disk or
> > > something?
> >
> > As this works for a few reboots, doesn't this look more like "deleting"
> > or "corrupting" the CGonf entries, rather than "not saving"?
>
> here's what I think (tho I could be wrong):
>
> 1) evo saves the new settings to gconf (which caches them and doesn't
> save them to disk... or maybe it does save them to disk but xmlSaveFile
> corrupts the file (which it does, believe me... I was the bonobo-conf
> maintainer and had to work around this problem...) but gconf doesn't
> notice).
>
> 2) evo gets shut down, gconf is still being used by other apps and so
> stays up and running
>
> 3) evo gets restarted, retrieves cached settings from gconfd
>
> 4) repeat steps 2 & 3 a few times
>
> 5) gconfd gets shut down for some reason (idle quit?)
>
> 6) evo gets started up, starts up gconfd because it wasn't running, and
> queries for the settings. Since the settings were corrupted away back in
> step 1, evo doesn't have values (or invalid values) for some settings
> and so has to default them to whatever the default values happen to be
> for those corrupted settings.
>
> 7) user sends mail to evolution ximian com
>
> 8) fejj blames gconf :-)
>
> > This would mean, Evolution silently imports the settings again.
>
> well, possibly... but ONLY if gconf is buggy in the first place and
> didn't save the setting that tells evo we've already imported the old
> settings. or else if thats etting got corrupted by gconf somehow...
>
> > I would suggest dumping some values to a file (after setting these to
> > correct values) and dumping again when settings are being reset. There
> > must be a difference visible.
> >
> > Jeff, do you agree?
>
> yes, I would concur :-)
>
> > ...guenther
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com