[sabayon] Home dir of sabayon

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

  I just checked out the CVs version of sabayon. I notice that
its home dir has been removed, and that apparently the code expects to
build it on the fly. However this seems to just not work for me. Gconf
yells at the result and fills up the syslog with:

Mar  2 13:27:08 paphio gconfd (sabayon-15972): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 15972 user 'sabayon' 
Mar  2 13:27:08 paphio gconfd (sabayon-15972): Owner of /tmp/orbit-sabayon is not the current user  
Mar  2 13:27:08 paphio last message repeated 2 times 
Mar  2 13:27:08 paphio gconfd (sabayon-15972): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 
Mar  2 13:27:08 paphio gconfd (sabayon-15972): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/tmp/sabayon-temp-home-u-g4Yb/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 
Mar  2 13:27:08 paphio gconfd (sabayon-15972): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 
Mar  2 13:27:08 paphio gconfd (sabayon-15972): Exiting 
Mar  2 13:27:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 16023 user 'sabayon' 
Mar  2 13:27:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Owner of /tmp/orbit-sabayon is not the current user  
Mar  2 13:27:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 
Mar  2 13:27:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/tmp/sabayon-temp-home-u-g4Yb/.gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 1 
Mar  2 13:27:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/tmp/sabayon-temp-home-u-g4Yb/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 2 
Mar  2 13:27:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/tmp/sabayon-temp-home-u-g4Yb/.gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 3 
Mar  2 13:27:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 4 
Mar  2 13:27:30 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/tmp/sabayon-temp-home-u-g4Yb/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0 
Mar  2 13:28:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (No such file or directory) 
Mar  2 13:28:09 paphio last message repeated 12 times 
Mar  2 13:28:09 paphio gconfd (sabayon-16023): Could not open saved state file '/tmp/sabayon-temp-home-u-g4Yb/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' for writing: No such file or directory 


  I wonder why the static home path was changed why there was no discussion
about it on the list and the ISSUE file still list this this as an unresolved
matter. I think that applications may record home path and do not expect them
to change from one launch to another. I think this change fragilize the 
ability to actually record application preferences, it makes writing special
handlers for configuration files harder and is not justified (it may look
more secure but I'm not convinced it actually is since the general Unix login
protection mechanism should applies to sabayon).
  
Daniel

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