'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 19/07/12 16:41 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 19/07/12 16:30 did gyre and gimble: >> >> On 2012.07.19, at 06:45, fwang wrote: >> >>> Name : dconf Relocations: (not relocatable) >>> Version : 0.13.4 Vendor: Mageia.Org >>> Release : 4.mga3 Build Date: Thu Jul 19 06:40:08 >>> 2012 >>> Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: ecosse.mageia.org >>> Group : System/Libraries Source RPM: (none) >>> Size : 243577 License: LGPLv2+ >>> Signature : (none) >>> Packager : fwang <fwang> >>> URL : http://live.gnome.org/dconf >>> Summary : Configuration backend for Glib >>> Description : >>> This is a configuration backend for Glib's GSettings and part of GNOME 3.0. >>> >>> fwang <fwang> 0.13.4-4.mga3: >>> + Revision: 272487 >>> - fix giolibname >>> - more conflicts should be added >> >> >> There is a problem starting gdm (and I don't know if others) because >> of gnome-session: >> >> gnome-session[2011]: CRITICAL: unable to create file '/run/user/493/dconf': >> Is a directory. dconf will not work properly. >> >> Patch/rebuild needed ? > > Yeah I saw this too. If you rmdir the directory, it is just recreated > automatically. > > I know gdm does strange things with dconf to inject it's data in so it > might even need patching. Worth talking to Ray (halfline) upstream maybe?
Actually there is a fix from upstream for it in git master. I applied it here and it seems to work OK so just submitted a new build of gdm. Apparently autologin is also broken in latest gdm, so there will likely be a new release out soon when that is fixed according to Ray. Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
