** Changed in: dconf
Importance: Medium = Undecided
** Changed in: dconf
Remote watch: GNOME Bug Tracker #662141 = None
** Changed in: d-conf (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Ryan Lortie (desrt)
** Also affects: d-conf (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: High
Assignee: Ryan Lortie
Ryan says the segfault is
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662141 and he plans to
improve tolerance to such errors next cycle, do you hit that bug in some
production mode or while hacking around to define profiles for your
config?
** Project changed: lightdm = dconf
** Also affects:
Sorry for the churn here. I'm not actually concerned about the bug in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662141. I agree that's user
error, and there's nothing particularly crucial about improving the
error reporting here.
The bug at this point is that when the file does exist, and is
Also, on Ubuntu, there is no system table at all by default, so a
failure to open one that's configured probably doesn't degrade the
system much. ;)
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When we crash, table-data is in fact null.
I presume this is the expected behavior of g_mapped_file_get_contents
for an empty file.
Fixing the erroneous extra * will turn this into a check whether
table-data is null. But that's still going to have a bug.
If it returns zero, then
** Changed in: dconf
Status: Unknown = New
** Changed in: dconf
Importance: Unknown = Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/981053
Title:
Creating system dconf
I submit that the importance of this bug is High. It completely prevents
creating a system configuration as far as I can tell.
There is no way to create a non-zero binary database. And zero-length
binary databases are broken. (And the obvious fix also prevents loading
of the textual ones in .d.)
Please remove the reference to gnome-bugs #662141. This is NOT that bug.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/981053
Title:
Creating system dconf configuration crashes lightdm
To manage
