[7840] in testers
Re: Updates lost/moved gnome settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Feb 19 20:06:45 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:05:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Christine L Moulen <orbitee@mit.edu>
cc: testers@mit.edu
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The transition from .gconf-debathena-ubuntu to .gconf-debathena-hardy
happened in May 2008 with the debathena-gconf2-config 1.3 release. That
release also had code that was supposed to do the migration automatically
by copying dotfile directories appropriately (installed as an xsession
script).
So, one possibility is that debathena-gconf2-config was for some reason at
version 1.2 before this update (which probably brought it to 1.4, which
was released about a month ago), and the transition code didn't work. We
could check whether this happened by looking at the lines related to
debathena-gconf2-config in /var/log/aptitude.
-Tim Abbott
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Christine L Moulen wrote:
> I installed a bunch of updates today, like a month worth. There were several
> debathena updates in the mix. I could list them all if that's useful.
>
> After relogging in, gnome and several programs lost all my configurations.
> Things disappeared from the panel, screensaver settings gone, evolution thought
> it had upgraded from version 1.0.0 and lost all my preferences as well as setup
> of a local mail account.
>
> Hunting through dotfiles and such, I think it's related to settings previously
> being stored under .gconf-debathena-ubuntu and now under
> .gconf-debathena-hardy. But nothing was migrated from the old to new location.
>
> Christine
>
