I don't know how to reassign a bug to a new package, so someone else
will have to do it for me.
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update-schemas: Error writing file
/var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree.xml.new: File exists
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from the bug package you can click on the task, it'll expand the
settings for it and you can change the source package name. What does
softbeep has to do with gconf though?
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update-schemas: Error writing file
/var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree.xml.new: File exists
I remembered what initially caused the problem on my original
installation. The first time I saw the error was after downgrading totem
(and totem-gstreamer) from 1.4.3-0ubuntu1 to 1.4.1-0ubuntu4. I did this
because the totem browser plugin wasn't available for 1.4.3-0ubuntu1.
Re-upgrading totem
More experimentation:
I again copied my /var/lib/gconf directory from my other (non-broken)
Edgy box, and am doing some experiments with that.
One test is to unregister and then register a single schema. I did this
with evince-thumbnailer-djvu.schemas:
# With virgin gconf dir from spider,
The error message is generated by the gconf source file backends/markup-
tree.c in the save_tree_with_locale function on line 4480.
That code assumes that if there was an error, (i.e. write_failed is
true) it was caused by something that sets errno. However, there are
plenty of ways for an error
Ok... the line that causes gconftool to bail out is a call to fputs on
line 4030 of markup-tree.c (in the function write_local_schema_info).
Here's the surrounding chunk of code:
if (write_descs local_schema-long_desc)
{
if (fprintf (f, %slongdesc, whitespace2) 0)
goto out;
Ok, here's my workaround. This results in output identical to the output
of the non-patched gconf on you working system. It probably just masks
the real problem, though.
So what changed to cause local_schema-long_desc to be defined but point
to an empty string? Who knows? The schema files are the
