On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:41 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > my ~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml is about 2MB in size, after logout/login it is > > just a few k big and I am left with a gnome-default setup > > > > this happens reproducably and also across reboots (and did never happen > > since early gnome2 to me) > > I think you recently corrupted your filesystem; what might be happening
Something evil could very well have happened in the last years to the gconf db. > here is that your GConf schemas are broken and gconfd automatically > removes schema-less entries. Then this behavior is broken. After all gconf neither displays a warning/error when it is being started with the (before) intact/working db and is also happily serving the right settings to all the applications. > If you find out why this happens exactly or what we could improve in > this case, let us know. Will do, maybe .20 will change things to the better... Soeren -- Sometimes, there's a moment as you're waking, when you become aware of the real world around you, but you're still dreaming.