Bug 43632 – Gnumeric 1.2.6 gconf problem: Unable to load key '...' Using default value '...'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description burrelln 2004-03-03 11:59:15 UTC]

A freshly installed gnumeri-1.2.6 gives the following error messages when first starting up.  The result seems to be a mis-spaced toolbar and in the preferences dialog the captions are absent and say instead "schema missing".

To Reproduce:
1) emerge gnumeric
2) Run gnumeric: 

Expected Result: Error free operation, consistent toolbar spacing, dialog box captions

Actual Result: gconf errors, overly wide toolbar spacings, no captions in preferences dialog

Error messages

** (gnumeric:22593): WARNING **: Unable to load key '/apps/gnumeric/core/file/history/n'
 
** (gnumeric:22593): WARNING **: Using default value '4'
 
** (gnumeric:22593): WARNING **: Unable to load key '/apps/gnumeric/plugins/activate-new'
 
** (gnumeric:22593): WARNING **: Using default value 'true'

<Similar messages many more times>



$ emerge info
 Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.3-gentoo-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r2 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1
distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops  -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse,387"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops  -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse,387"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr emacs encode esd fam foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 09:45:22 UTC]

hmm, I am unable to duplicate this behaviour.. I just build gnumeric and started it,  No errors, no nothing. all toolbars appear ok.

Could you check your gconf install and your gnumeric install? 

please check the files :
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gnumeric/core/file/history/%gconf.xml and /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gnumeric/plugins/%gconf.xml

Make sure gconf is running properly:
gconftool-2 --ping
and restart gconf.

[Comment 2 burrelln 2004-03-04 09:52:40 UTC]

The problem was fixed by HUP'ing the gconfd daemon.  Both of those files exist in /etc/gconf.