Bugzilla Bug 215281

it gives:
mail-notification 

** (mail-notification:5725): WARNING **: cannot find default value of
configuration key "/apps/mail-notification/tooltip-mail-summary-limit"

** (mail-notification:5725): WARNING **: cannot find default value of
configuration key "/apps/mail-notification/popups/expiration/delay-2"

** (mail-notification:5725): WARNING **: cannot find default value of
configuration key "/apps/mail-notification/fallback-charsets"

** (mail-notification:5725): WARNING **: cannot find default value of
configuration key "/apps/mail-notification/popups/expiration/delay-2"


and it popped up a window about wrong default mail notification installation 

Reproducible: Always

I see the same on AMD64. Downgrading to 5.0-r1 fixes the problem.

This seems to work fine for me (on amd64), and checking with gconf-editor shows
me that I do have all of those keys. I would assume that mail-notification
would just install the defaults if they are not there.

Normally these new keys should be in the updated gconf schema file which should
be located in /etc/gconf/schemas/mail-notification.schemas. Did this file get
updated during installation? Does it contain the new keys (eg the
tooltip-mail-summary-limit key at the end of the file)?

the file /etc/gconf/schemas/mail-notification.schemas does not exist.
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/mail-notification.schemas has yhe key
tooltip-mail-summary-limit.

as user had to run:
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=//usr/share/gconf/schemas/mail-
notification.schemas

Comment 4 fixed the problem for me. Is this an upstream problem or an omission
from the ebuild?

Comment 4 didn't fix the problem for me.

(In reply to comment #4)
> as user had to run:
> gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=//usr/share/gconf/schemas/mail-
> notification.schemas
> 

Worked for me.
Köszi a tippet. :)

For those of you that had or have this problem, could you include the output of 

gconftool-2 --get-default-source

It would also be useful to know the output of the following command:

bzgrep GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS
/var/db/pkg/mail-client/mail-notification-5.2*/environment.bz2

xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults

and

GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS=
    if [[ -z "${GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS}" ]]; then
    for F in ${GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS};
    export GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS=$(find 'etc/gconf/schemas/' -name '*.schemas'
2> /dev/null);
    if [[ -z "${GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS}" ]]; then
    for F in ${GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS};
declare -x GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS=""

respectively. Let me know if you need anything else. :-)

The issue might be the one mentioned on the projects homepage:
"A crash affecting Evolution mailboxes on 64-bit systems has been fixed."

which seems to be fixed in 5.3. But perhaps not, since I don't have any
Evolution mailboxes. I haven't the new version yet though, waiting for it to
get into portage.

(In reply to comment #11)
> The issue might be the one mentioned on the projects homepage:
> "A crash affecting Evolution mailboxes on 64-bit systems has been fixed."

No, that crash is completely unrelated to this issue and fixed in 5.2-r1.

(In reply to comment #11)
> The issue might be the one mentioned on the projects homepage:
> "A crash affecting Evolution mailboxes on 64-bit systems has been fixed."
> 
> which seems to be fixed in 5.3. But perhaps not, since I don't have any
> Evolution mailboxes. I haven't the new version yet though, waiting for it to
> get into portage.
> 

Comment 4 fixed the issue for me, thanks! Just wished I had looked at the
bugzilla two weeks ago ;)

The problem still exists in mail-notification-5.3. It would be nice if someone
could rename this bug, e.g. >mail-notification-5.0-r1 : default configuration
is not installed correctly.

comment #4 fixed it for me

( @ those for whom the fix does not work : execute as the correct user )

The problem seems to be the wrong installation path of the schemas file(s).

For those of you who have or had this problem, please try to provide the
information in comment 8 and comment 9 so that we can work towards a solution.
Even though the command in comment 4 solves the problem, it is not the solution
we should be looking for in the ebuild, since the files should not be in
/usr/share in the first place.

(In reply to comment #15)
gconftool-2 --get-default-source is correct ( /etc/... ). Probably its a bug in
the -propietary- build system of mail-notification.

The function which sets the value is in jbsrc/lib/src/core/jb-feature.c :

static void
gconf_configure (void)
{
  JBVariable *variable;

  jb_require_program("gconftool-2");

  if (! strcmp(jb_variable_get_string("gconf-config-source"), "autodetect"))
    {
      char *config_source;

      if (! jb_exec_expand(&config_source, NULL, "$gconftool-2
--get-default-source", NULL))
        jb_error("unable to detect the GConf configuration source address");

      jb_variable_set_string("gconf-config-source", config_source);
      g_free(config_source);
    }

  /* fix the default schemas dir on Ubuntu */
  variable = jb_variable_get_variable_or_error("gconf-schemas-dir");
  if (! variable->user_set)
    {
      static const char *ubuntu_dir = "$datadir/gconf/schemas";
      char *expanded;

      expanded = jb_variable_expand(ubuntu_dir, NULL);

      if (g_file_test(expanded, G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR))
        jb_variable_set_string("gconf-schemas-dir", ubuntu_dir);

      g_free(expanded);
    }
}

I assume the bug is in there - either the correct value doesnt get set in the
first part or the value gets overwritten in the ubuntu part in any case.

Rant : I really wonder why someone writes his own brand new build system for
such a tiny app. It has no chance of becoming a standard ( autotools are the
standard / cmake maybe will be a standard, jbsrc never will be a standard )
imposing additional work on distributions / maintainers.

(In reply to comment #15)
> For those of you who have or had this problem, please try to provide the
> information in comment 8 and comment 9 so that we can work towards a solution.
> Even though the command in comment 4 solves the problem, it is not the solution
> we should be looking for in the ebuild, since the files should not be in
> /usr/share in the first place.
> 

I am using mail-notification-5.3 right now, but 5.2 needed this workaround to
work.

Here comes the info you asked.

xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults

GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS=
    if [[ -z "${GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS}" ]]; then
    for F in ${GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS};
    export GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS=$(find 'etc/gconf/schemas/' -name '*.schemas'
2> /dev/null);
    if [[ -z "${GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS}" ]]; then
    for F in ${GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS};
declare -x GNOME2_ECLASS_SCHEMAS=""

I've just added mail-notification 5.4 to the tree. In this version I've removed
the ubuntu special case code mentioned in comment 16. I hope that this fixes
the problem, but I would like to get some feedback on that from people who had
the earlier problems.

Note that the problem may not be obvious as you already installed the correct
schema files manually, so the thing to look for is to see where emerge places
the schema files. You should see this among the files:

>>> /etc/gconf/schemas/mail-notification.schemas

If you see this file being installed in /usr/share then it would be helpful if
you could attach a full build log to the bug.

(In reply to comment #18)
> I've just added mail-notification 5.4 to the tree. In this version I've removed
> the ubuntu special case code mentioned in comment 16. I hope that this fixes
> the problem, but I would like to get some feedback on that from people who had
> the earlier problems.
> 
> Note that the problem may not be obvious as you already installed the correct
> schema files manually, so the thing to look for is to see where emerge places
> the schema files. You should see this among the files:
> 
> >>> /etc/gconf/schemas/mail-notification.schemas
> 
> If you see this file being installed in /usr/share then it would be helpful if
> you could attach a full build log to the bug.
> 

mail-notification 5.4 now works fine for me - schemas file is where it belongs.

(In reply to comment #19)
> mail-notification 5.4 now works fine for me - schemas file is where it belongs.

Same here!