Bug 30175 – gnome-session-2.4.0 failed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Joe Kallar (RETIRED) 2003-10-02 09:16:09 UTC]

gnome-session fails on a fresh install.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gnome
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
checking for gconftool-2... /usr/bin/gconftool-2
Using config source xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults for schema installation
Using $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas/ as install directory for schema files
checking for gconf-sanity-check-2... no
configure: error: gconf-sanity-check-2 executable not found in your path -
should be installed with GConf

!!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-session-2.4.0 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 324, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed

Expected Results:  
emerge normally

emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r7 (default-sparc64-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-sparc-r0)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-sparc-r0 sparc64 sun4u
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="sparc crypt cups fbcon foomaticdb gnome libwww mad ncurses sdl spell xv
xml2 xmms zlib gdbm slang readline tcpd pam ssl perl python gtk motif dga
directfb kerberos mysql samba xml -arts -avi -encode -esd gif -imlib java jpeg
kde -mikmod -mpeg -nls -oggvorbis -oss opengl -png pdflib qt truetype X -berkdb"

[Comment 1 Joe Kallar (RETIRED) 2003-10-02 11:30:45 UTC]

@todd on #sparc suggested the following:
'emerge unmerge gconf'
'emerge gconf'
'emerge gnome'

Seems to work, and emerge is continuing. Adding gnome team to CC as fyi.

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-10-02 12:22:09 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29536 ***