12.04 baobab package missing gsettings-desktop-schemas dependency

[nfsd]

hostname# apt-get install baobab
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service libcairo-gobject2 libdconf0 libgtk-3-0
  libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common
Suggested packages:
  yelp librsvg2-common gvfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  baobab dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service libcairo-gobject2 libdconf0
  libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 193 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,708 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,275 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
...........etc...........
hostname# baobab

(baobab:768): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' is not installed

** (baobab:768): WARNING **: Error spawning command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=46610b5c4b489f2960b54439000000eb --binary-syntax --close-stderr': Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)

** (baobab:768): WARNING **: Error spawning command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=46610b5c4b489f2960b54439000000eb --binary-syntax --close-stderr': Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
hostname#

Here's the specific package in use:

hostname# apt-cache show baobab
Package: baobab
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 712
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
Replaces: gnome-utils (<< 2.30.0-2)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.30.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.3.18), libgtop2-7 (>= 2.22.3), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend
Suggests: yelp
Breaks: gnome-utils (<< 2.30.0-2)
Filename: pool/main/b/baobab/baobab_3.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 134450
MD5sum: 222ba816dc02f58133bd0185712885d5
SHA1: 0a4dbde8f5da1143bd8564a3a0eb28321bdc67be
SHA256: 30292c97fe08fd1632f5ad3c69d65f7357a9f095ce3481a3b7438aed0ade420c
Description: GNOME disk usage analyzer
Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeUtils
Description-md5: 5f6072b89ebb1dc83433fa7658814dc6
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb

hostname# apt-cache policy baobab
baobab:
  Installed: 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu-mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I was trying to test this bug, but I already have gsettings-desktop-schemas installed as a dependency of ubuntu-desktop. I then tried poking around with ldd but found nothing.

$ldd $(which baobab)

[nfsd (in4mer+launchpad)]

This applies to servers, which seldom have ubuntu-desktop installed.

The output logged in the original report is conclusive. Install baobab and get errors. Install gsettings-desktop-schemas and baobab runs.

If you're looking for a way to test an X application on a machine without ubuntu-desktop, tunnel X11 through ssh via 'ssh -XYCSnone <user>@<hostname>', then start the X application through that remote shell.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Fixed in xenial (because gtk3 depends on glib-networking which depends on gsettings-desktop-schemas) but not fixed in trusty

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm marking this wontfix for precise since precise is only supported for a few more weeks (April) and this isn't that important of a bug there now.