Re: gconf error

[Tom T <TRT Linux Usr earthlink net>]

Hi Neil,

I am not so sure that I am running gconf-2.  I spent several hours 
trying to resurect settings.  I started by doing something that Rajkumar 
Sivasamy <rajkumar siva wipro com> wrote about Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:12:36 
+0530, titled Gconf/Cobra Errors

"As a workaround deleting my ~/.gconfd directory and restarting GNOME
fixes the issue, but after few days of usage the problem starts again (I
couldn't succeed in getting a test case scenario which could reproduce
this)."

I checked what you recommended, and found that my locale was 
en_US.UTF-8, and ran gconfig-editor from a terminal window to get any 
errors directly.  Boy did I get them too.  Cobra errors left and right. 
 every time I clicked on something I got an error.

I found that literally everything (with regard to the desktop) was set 
to integer, and not set.  So, I started in manually setting stuff to 
known values, and variable types.  It is taking a long time, but seems 
to be going OK for now.

The desktop is not the only place I am getting errors either.  Sometimes 
I start Gnome software from KDE, and get configuration errors.  They may 
be window related though.

I am wondering what may have triggered this whole mess.  I like the way 
that KDE works better than Gnome, so I normally run the KDE desktop, and 
have made a few kernal changes from KDE.  Simple stuff really.  I added 
USB Serial support as well as USB Palm/Sony Clie support.  I'm not sure 
that this did anything either, as I have experienced this problem in two 
seperate installations of Red Hat 9.  My most recent installation was on 
Jan 29.

If you can help, I would sincerely appreciate it.  Or, if you know 
another avenue to take, that would also be very appreciated.

Best Regards,

Tom



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> From: Neil Bird <neil fnxweb com>
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> Around about 22/02/05 01:34, Tom T typed ...
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> > I have searched the Archives, but have not found a resolution to a 
> > problem that I am having with gconf2.  For no apparent reason, the 
> > entire desktop configuration is lost, ...
>
>
>    Not sure there's anyone else on the list ...
>
>    I can only report my 'fix' for the non-existent gconf values I was 
> suffering with since updating my box (although I suspect it'll be 
> different for you as it seems it 'just happened' for you).
>
>    On my Fedora Core 3 box, gconf was malfunctioning *badly* with 
> respect to defaults from the schema files.  I finally tracked it down to 
> having a locale of 'en_GB' (/etc/sysconfig/i18n);  on my FC3 PVR 
> fresh-install, locale was en_GB.UTF-8;  when I set my box to have that 
> locale, gconf magically worked OK.
>
>    Try running gconf-editor and see if you can find an offending value 
> (my dead ones said '<no value>').  Then try getting it or just its type 
>   manually with gconftool-2.  My next step was getting the debuginfo 
> RPMs for GConf2 etc. and getting down and dirty with ddd/gdb ...