Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#28500 closed defect (wontfix)

GConf tries to load a config file from hardcoded directory "/etc/gconf"

Reported by: cubranic@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.9.2
Keywords: Cc:
Port: gconf

Description

Whenever I run gconftool to query the GConf database, I get a warning about a non-existent config file in "/etc/gconf": 

$ gconftool-2 --get  /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme

(gconftool-2:64815): GConf-WARNING **: Failed to load source "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system": Failed: Could not make directory `/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system': No such file or directory
gnome

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Looking at the source, this appears to be quite deliberate. Per-instance config files are read from ${prefix}/etc and per-machine from /etc, much like MySQL does with my.cnf for example.

comment:2 in reply to:  1 Changed 13 years ago by cubranic@…

Replying to jmr@…:

Looking at the source, this appears to be quite deliberate.

So is the warning really necessary then? It just adds noise to the queries.

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

Closing, as this appears to be an upstream issue and the port currently has no maintainer.

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