[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release dconf-0.13.4-4.mga3

Thu Jul 19 17:59:30 CEST 2012

'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
+
+
+-- 
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