The ~/.cache/dconf situation

David Edmundson david at davidedmundson.co.uk
Sun Feb 19 01:57:25 UTC 2012


Edit: I can reproduce this everytime. /EXCEPT/ When I run it in
strace, in which case it doesn't seem to bother making the directory,
but is perfectly happy with not doing so.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:41 AM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> I could reproduce this  every time, now I can't. So "sometimes"
>
> However, the backtrace is all entirely within libdconf (and gio(!),
> not from any code in telepathy-gabble, so I don't think reporting it
> upstream is going to help much.
>
> Relevant bit of code from dconf.
>
> dconf_shmdir_from_environment (void)
> {
>  gchar *result;
>
>  result = g_build_filename (g_get_user_runtime_dir (), "dconf", NULL);
>
>  if (g_mkdir_with_parents (result, 0700) != 0)
>    g_critical ("unable to create '%s'; dconf will not work properly.", result);
>
>  return result;
> }
>
> I'm not sure anymore.


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