Bug 132862 – Signal (HUP) gconf daemons to reload schemas on schemas install/uninstall

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ed Catmur 2006-05-09 23:20:32 UTC]

When schemas are installed (in gnome2_gconf_install), running gconf daemons are not updated with the new schemas. This causes problems with some applications (for example, gnome-power-manager decides the user isn't allowed to suspend the machine, gnucash-1.9.x gets very upset, etc.)

gconfd-2 reloads schemas when it receives SIGHUP. It would be simple to add "killall -SIGHUP gconfd-2" to gnome2_gconf_{install,uninstall} in gnome2.eclass.

[Comment 1 Ed Catmur 2006-05-17 08:33:54 UTC]

Note that this is recommended practice in Fedora:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScriptletSnippets#head-ff64cd482595764f672082d5a3b83e1fc22962e8

Also see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328697

[Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2006-06-28 19:39:05 UTC]

we could modify eclass to achieve that, isn't it ?

[Comment 3 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2006-07-21 11:35:21 UTC]

Created attachment 92434 [details, diff]
gconf.reload.patch

gnome herd: can a few of us test this, and then I'll commit it?

Thanks.

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2006-08-03 10:05:30 UTC]

simplified the patch and added it.

Thanks for the report and suggestion Ed.