Re: Does CVS gconf have known problems?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:50:39AM +1000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> Is the current version of gconf in CVS meant to be functioning
> correctly?

Yep. 

> I have just been building recent versions of everything
> (installed into a clean directories, so I know there is no extraneous
> cruft interfering with things) and gconf is dumping core during the
> install rule of eog. The message in /var/log/messages is telling me to
> report a bug, but just filing "it dumped core" is not really helpful, so
> I'll need to spend a bit of time working out what is going on on.

If it reliably crashes, just shut it down (gconftool-2 --shutdown)
then run a "gdb gconfd-2" from a terminal and get a backtrace.

Havoc