Re: desktop shortcuts have no icons.

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> >  Whenever I compile gmc from source, all my desktop
> >  icons change to the default white "unknown file" icon.
> >  
> >  The bug can be reproduced by taking a plain Redhat 6.1
> >  machine, upgrading gnome from source using
> >  
> >  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> >  make && make install
> >  
> >  then grabing the source for gmc and ugrading using
> >  
> >  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> >  make && make install
> >  
> >  What could be causing this problem?
> 
> Red Hat decided to make gnome-libs use db1 for its metadata storage.
> However, if the gnome-libs detects db2 when you run the configure
> script, it will use instead.  Unfortunately, db2 and db1 are not
> compatible and the former will not read the database files from the
> latter.
> 
> What you are seeing is that your existing metadata database is stored
> with db1, because that is the one the original Red Hat Linux packages
> were using, but your packages which are compiled with db2 cannot read
> the database back.
> 
> If you delete your ~/.gnome/metadata.db and re-run gmc, it should be
> fixed.  Unfortunately right now we have no way to convert a db1 file
> into a db2 file.
> 
Configuring gnome-libs with the command

./configure --enable-prefer-db1 ...

could be a better option.

Norman