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Bug 360175 - [gnome-overlay] sys-apps/accountsservice needs to dodir some directories to run properly
Summary: [gnome-overlay] sys-apps/accountsservice needs to dodir some directories to r...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Blocks: gnome3
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Reported: 2011-03-23 17:02 UTC by Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED)
Modified: 2012-02-12 14:11 UTC (History)
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corrected accountsservice-0.6.6-r1 ebuild (accountsservice-0.6.6-r1.ebuild,1.29 KB, text/plain)
2011-03-23 17:02 UTC, Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 		Details
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Description Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-03-23 17:02:05 UTC 
Created attachment 267009 [details]
corrected accountsservice-0.6.6-r1 ebuild

The accounts-daemon installed by sys-apps/accountsservice-0.6.6-r1 (from gnome overlay) uses the /var/lib/AccountsService/users and /var/lib/AccountsService/icons directories to store users' preferred desktop sessions, language choices, and icons. If the ebuild does not create these directories (and it currently does not), accounts-daemon (and the applications that make use of it, such as gnome-3's gdm and gnome-control-center) will fail to save user preferences properly.

The attached ebuild correctly creates these directories.
Comment 1 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-03-23 23:24:22 UTC 
We just need to pass --localstatedir=/var, the build takes care of those directories. This is now fixed in the overlay, thanks for reporting!