Re: Gnome shell not saving anything

[Dylan McCall <dylanmccall gmail com>]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Javier Domingo <javierdo1 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to install gnome-shell over a minimal ubuntu install, and it
> has been a horror to get it completely working. If you install gnome-shell
> packet, there is no dependency with gnome-core, thought it needs it to do
> anything.
>
> After using it for some time, I realised that it is not storing changes I do
> through it. For example, favourites links, added printers, configuration
> about it, etc. All reseted with reboot. So I tried to launch a program from
> the gnome core, and it threw this:
>
>> GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings
>> will not be saved or shared with other applications.
>
>
> Which I didn't configure, and I don't know where is it coming from. I have
> been searching around the net but found nothing too related (a bug with
> epiphany which outputed the same error), and was finally solved installing
> libdconf (which a non working fix for this).
>
> I didn't wanted to create a bug before I knew if there is something I have
> done wrong.

What you're seeing here is a packaging issue, so please bring it up
with Ubuntu. You can file a bug report on Launchpad, in Ubuntu's page
for the gnome-shell package:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell

Dylan