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Re: Updates lost/moved gnome settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Fri Feb 20 10:39:03 2009
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:38:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Christine L Moulen <orbitee@mit.edu>
cc: testers@mit.edu
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Okay -- further investigation suggests that indeed Athena 10 probably did
not deploy debathena-gconf2-config 1.3 until this January. So the
remaining question is why the transition code didn't work, which should be
testable.
-Tim Abbott
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Christine L Moulen wrote:
> Looks like you are correct.
>
> >From my /var/log/dpkg.log:
>
> 2009-02-19 10:08:25 upgrade debathena-gconf2-config 1.2~ubuntu8.04
> 1.4~ubuntu8.04
> 2009-02-19 10:08:25 status half-configured debathena-gconf2-config
> 1.2~ubuntu8.04
> 2009-02-19 10:08:26 status unpacked debathena-gconf2-config
> 1.2~ubuntu8.04
> 2009-02-19 10:08:26 status half-installed debathena-gconf2-config
> 1.2~ubuntu8.04
> 2009-02-19 10:08:26 status half-installed debathena-gconf2-config
> 1.2~ubuntu8.04
> 2009-02-19 10:08:26 status unpacked debathena-gconf2-config
> 1.4~ubuntu8.04
> 2009-02-19 10:08:26 status unpacked debathena-gconf2-config
> 1.4~ubuntu8.04
>
> And from /var/log/apt/term.log:
>
> Preparing to replace debathena-gconf2-config 1.2~ubuntu8.04
> (using .../debathena-gconf2-config_1.4~ubuntu8.04_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement debathena-gconf2-config ...
> Setting up debathena-gconf2-config (1.4~ubuntu8.04) ...
>
> I did a workstation install on January 24, using the process on the
> athena10 web site. Hadn't done any updates since.
>
> Christine
>
> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 20:05 -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> > 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
> > >
>
>
