Bug#514809: gconf settings are not included in sabayon profiles

Wed Feb 11 01:36:23 UTC 2009

Package: sabayon
Version: 2.22.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

On both a new Lenny install and on an upgrade from Etch,
Sabayon fails to save any changes to gconf settings:
e.g., I created a new Sabayon profile and tried
disabling "Lock screen when screensaver is active", and
using the GConf editor to set the gconf key "apps/gksu/sudo_mode";
Sabayon's "Show Changes" window showed both changes, but 
selecting "Save" from the "Profile" menu didn't work - there is
no gconf stuff in the saved profile and quitting and restarting
Sabayon, and editing the sabed profile, confirms that the changes were
not saved.

Sabayon does save changes to (e.g.) the Iceweasel profile, so it's not
completely borked, but from my perspective managing gconf settings
is its core function, hence the severityd.  Feel free to downgrade if you
disagree, but this bug makes it essentially useless to me when I'm
wearing my "desktop admin" hat.

Two apparently unrelated issues, reported just in case: 
 - on each Sabayon run GNOME reports that the Gnome Settings daemon
   repeatedly failed to start, but this seems to happen for any XNest
   session;
 - Sabayon reports a "Recoverable error" on exiting, producing
   the log shown below:
     ===== BEGIN MILESTONES (/usr/bin/sabayon) =====
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:09:37.6775 (admin-tool): Creating profiles
     dialog
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:09:37.8016 (admin-tool): Starting main loop
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:19:23.6890 (admin-tool): Got recoverable error:
     sabayon-session exited with RECOVERABLE exit status
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:19:26.4171 (admin-tool): Terminating main loop
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:19:26.4172 (admin-tool): Exiting normally;
     dumping log due to a recoverable error
     ===== END MILESTONES (/usr/bin/sabayon) =====
     ===== BEGIN RING BUFFER (/usr/bin/sabayon) =====
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:09:37.6775 (admin-tool): Creating profiles
     dialog
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:09:37.8016 (admin-tool): Starting main loop
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:09:45.6564 (USER): Starting to edit profile
     'GTAG'
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:19:23.6890 (admin-tool): Got recoverable error:
     sabayon-session exited with RECOVERABLE exit status
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:19:24.8466 (USER): Finishing editing profile
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:19:26.4171 (admin-tool): Terminating main loop
     MainThread 2009/02/11 10:19:26.4172 (admin-tool): Exiting normally;
     dumping log due to a recoverable error
     ===== END RING BUFFER (/usr/bin/sabayon) =====

     This configuration for the debug log can be re-created
     by putting the following in /root/sabayon-debug-log.conf
     (use ';' to separate domain names):

     [debug log]
     max lines = 1000

I've attached a copy of a profile created using Sabayon, showing the
absence of any gconf-related stuff.

Regards,

John Pearson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc3-1huiac (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sabayon depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gdm                        2.20.7-4      GNOME Display Manager
ii  gksu                       2.0.0-6       graphical frontend to su
ii  libc6                      2.7-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-7       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.6-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.11-4     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.4-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.5-3      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                     2:1.0.3-2     X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  passwd                     1:4.1.1-6     change and administer password and
ii  python                     2.5.2-3       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-gamin               0.1.9-2       Python binding for the gamin clien
ii  python-glade2              2.12.1-6      GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2              2.22.0-1      Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk2                2.12.1-6      Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-ldap                2.3.5-1       An LDAP interface module for Pytho
ii  python-libxml2             2.6.32.dfsg-5 Python bindings for the GNOME XML 
ii  python-support             0.8.4         automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python2.5                  2.5.2-15      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  xnest                      2:1.4.2-10    Nested X server

sabayon recommends no packages.

sabayon suggests no packages.

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