Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Gconf key error with GnomeMeeting 1.3.0

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi Jonathan,

   Le dimanche 13 mars 2005 à 13:26 -0500, Jonathan H. Wheaton a écrit :
> Hi Libin,
> 
> I don't know if you found a resolution to this problem yet, but here's
> what I did to get past it: since we want all the Gconf keys to be
> "apps/gnomemeeting-snapshot" and not "apps/gnomemeeting" there are some
> additional files that need to be changed, mostly in the po subdirectory,
> but also in a few other places.
> 
> First I created a list of files with "apps/gnomemeeting-snapshot/":
> 
> $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "apps\/gnomemeeting\/" >
> filelist
> 
> You'll want to sanity check the generated file.  I took out the
> Changelog (and since I had already compiled once, any .o files and the
> gnomemeeting binary).
> 
> Next I changed all the keys with this short Python script (I'm sure
> there are better ways, this is what my limited experience came up with):
> 
> -----------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> import os
> f = open('filelist')
> filelist = f.readlines()
> f.close()
> for file in filelist:
>     file = file[:-1]
>     print 'ed "%s"' % file
>     input = os.popen('ed "%s"' % file, 'w')
>     input.write('g/apps\/gnomemeeting\//s//apps\/gnomemeeting-snapshot
> \//g\n')
>     input.write('wq\n')
>     input.close()
> -----------------------------------
> 
> There is one more file you'll need to edit though, the
> gnomemeeting-config-tool.in.  Open it and search and replace on
> apps/gnomemeeting with apps/gnomemeeting-snapshot.  Also replace
> gnomemeeting.schemas with gnomemeeting-snapshot.schemas (one
> occurrence).
> 
> Next step is to clean up and run autogen again and make install.
> 
> After you have gnomemeeting-snapshot installed, shutdown gconfd using
> kill and make sure it's no longer running.  Then install the
> gnomemeeting-snapshot schemas into Gconf:
> 
> $ gnomemeeting-config-tool-snapshot --install-schemas
> 
> I think I did that as root, but I'm not sure why now.  It was 3:00 am
> when I was doing all this.  I might try it as a normal user if I did it
> again.
> 
> That was it for me.  After all that, when I started gconf-editor I could
> see all the new keys in apps/gnomemeeting-snapshot and Gnomemeeting
> started without error.
> 

I've never had to do all this.

Did I forget something special in my mini howto?





> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> > [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Gconf key error with GnomeMeeting 1.3.0
> > 
> >     * From: "ZHANG Libin" <zhanglibin nlsde buaa edu cn>
> >     * To: "'GnomeMeeting development mailing list'"
> <gnomemeeting-devel-list gnome org>
> >     * Subject: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Gconf key error with
> GnomeMeeting 1.3.0
> >     * Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:24:05 +0800
> > 
> > Hi, all
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I compiled GnomeMeeting 1.3.0 and try to run it, but got some error
> message as:
> > 
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Gconf key error
> > 
> > GnomeMeeting got an invalid value for the GConf key
> "/apps/gnomemeeting/general/gconf_test_age".
> > 
> > It probably means that your GConf schemas have not been correctly
> installed or the that permissions are not correct.
> > 
> > Please check the FAQ (http://www.gnomemeeting.org/faq.php), the
> throubleshoot section of the GConf site
> (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/) or the mailing list archives for
> more information (http://mail.gnome.org) about this problem.
> > 
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I looked up the FAQ and tried the method as given, but seems no
> effect :( $ chmod -R 4755 /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ $ killall -9
> gconfd-2
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I noticed that "If it doesn't work, either GConf is not properly setup
> on your system, either you don't have compiled GnomeMeeting with the
> right GConf flags."
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Then what GConf flags should be set when compiling GnomeMeeting?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Libin
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
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> 
> Jonathan H. Wheaton <jonathan_wheaton adelphia net>
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