Bug#285171: gconf2: Gconf fails silently on permission errors.

[Nathan Hurst]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.8.1-4
Severity: normal


Gconf fails to start without giving a meaningful error if the user's home
directory is not writable or /tmp/gconf-user isn't writable.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.8.0-3      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-19 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.8.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.8-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.4.13-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.6.0-3      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-5        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2                     2.6.11-5     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

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