Bug#862307: mate-control-center: desktop background settings no longer honored

[brian m. carlson]

Package: mate-control-center
Version: 1.16.1-1
Severity: normal

I recently restarted my computer (after quite some time) and noticed
that my custom background is being ignored.  Instead, I have the default
background from desktop-base.

I'm unclear whether this is a mate-settings-daemon bug or a
mate-control-center bug, or whether the problem lies elsewhere entirely.

For the benefit of debugging, here are the relevant dconf settings; they
have not changed:

  genre ok % dconf list /org/mate/desktop/background/ | xargs -L1 sh -c 'printf "$0: "; dconf read /org/mate/desktop/background/$0'
  color-shading-type: 'vertical-gradient'
  primary-color: 'rgb(88,145,188)'
  picture-options: 'scaled'
  picture-filename: '/home/bmc/Pictures/Backgrounds/bokeh-1772974.jpg'
  secondary-color: 'rgb(60,143,37)'

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-control-center depends on:
ii  caja-common                 1.16.2-2
ii  desktop-file-utils          0.23-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas   3.22.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                 2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                       2.24-10
ii  libcairo-gobject2           1.14.8-1
ii  libcairo2                   1.14.8-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0          0.30-3
ii  libcanberra0                0.30-3
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.10.18-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.108-2
ii  libdconf1                   0.26.0-2+b1
ii  libfreetype6                2.6.3-3.2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0          2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.50.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin              2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                  3.22.12-1
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.9-2
ii  libmarco-private1           1.16.0-1
ii  libmate-desktop-2-17        1.16.1-1
ii  libmate-menu2               1.16.0-2
ii  libmate-slab0               1.16.1-1
ii  libmate-window-settings1    1.16.1-1
ii  libmatekbd4                 1.16.0-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0              1.40.5-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0         1.40.5-1
ii  libsm6                      2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.12-4+b2
ii  libunique-3.0-0             3.0.2-2
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcursor1                 1:1.1.14-1+b4
ii  libxext6                    2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxi6                      2:1.7.9-1
ii  libxklavier16               5.4-2
ii  libxml2                     2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii  libxss1                     1:1.2.2-1
ii  marco-common                1.16.0-1
ii  mate-control-center-common  1.16.1-1
ii  mate-desktop                1.16.1-1
ii  mate-icon-theme             1.16.2-1
ii  mate-menus                  1.16.0-2
ii  mate-settings-daemon        1.16.2-1

mate-control-center recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mate-control-center suggests:
ii  gconf2  3.2.6-4+b1

-- no debconf information

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