I've noticed that apps that use GConf have some trouble with the package user hint - they complain about not being able to install schemas. A typical complaint (this one is from gedit):
>> WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/font/use_default_font' locale `th': Unable to store a value at key '/schemas/apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/font/use_default_font', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc//gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf >> While this doesn't 'make install' to fail, and the apps work, it does seem to be causing some strange behavior at run-time: for example, Epiphany doesn't honour my proxy settings (which are set in GConf, and working in Liferea). What would be the best way to solve these warnings (and hence check my hypothesis)? -- Lennon Victor Cook -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
