Bug#273127: gconf2: gconftool search for lock/ior in $HOME/.gconfd whereas gconfd-2 put this into /tmp/gconfd-$USER

[Serge Gavrilov]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.6.4-2
Severity: important


Hi! 

Recently I try to install new schemas by gconftool:

gconftool --install-schema-file /usr/local/lib/nautilus/ps-thumbnail.schema

The result was several warnings like this:

WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/image@vnd.djvu/enable' locale `C': Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit)

After analyzing the situation with strace I understand that gconftool search
for lock/ior file in $HOME/.gconfd whereas gconfd-2 daemon put this file into /tmp/gconfd-$USER:

close(35)                               = 0
close(37)                               = 0
close(-1)                               = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(-1)                               = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(-1)                               = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
waitpid(9154, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0) = 9154
read(33, "", 8)                         = 0
read(36, "\303#\0\0", 4)                = 4
read(36, "", 0)                         = 0
read(4, "g", 1)                         = 1
open("/home/serge/.gconfd/lock/ior", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(4)                                = 0
close(5)                                = 0
write(2, "WARNING: failed to install schem"..., 369WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/image@vnd.djvu/enable' locale `C': Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit)

The workaround is 

ln -s /tmp/gconfd-$USER/lock ~/.gconfd

After this gconftool begin to work correctly. 

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
hi  libatk1.0-0                 1.6.1-3      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
hi  libgconf2-4                 2.6.4-2      GNOME configuration database syste
hi  libglib2.0-0                2.4.6-2      The GLib library of C routines
hi  libgtk2.0-0                 2.4.9-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
hi  liborbit2                   1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
hi  libpango1.0-0               1.4.1-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
hi  libxml2                     2.6.11-3     GNOME XML library
hi  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-4    compression library - runtime

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