Comment 17 for bug 981053

I'm frustrated that we have no time for delay and this information is in
the bug. When I create an empty .d directory and no file, I get told that
it cannot open the DB and an abort.
On Apr 16, 2012 7:25 AM, "Sebastien Bacher" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thomas, why did you wrote "There is no way to create a non-zero binary
> database."? How did you try to create it?
>
> the "Key File Directories" section of the wiki Ryan pointed should cover
> that, did you try to create a "/etc/dconf/db/local.d/something", what
> did you put it in? Did you run "sudo dconf update" then? Do you get a
> file /etc/dconf/db/local in result?
>
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> Title:
> Creating system dconf configuration crashes Unity greeter
>
> Status in A simple key-based configuration system:
> New
> Status in “d-conf” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “d-conf” source package in Precise:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> I'm trying to create a system dconf configuration, and it's causing
> lightdm to crash.
>
> In /etc/dconf/profile/user I have
> user-db:user
> system-db:local
> system-db:site
>
> Then I create empty files /etc/dconf/db/local and /etc/dconf/db/site.
>
> On start, lightdm crashes, and x-0-greeter.log has this:
>
> /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-greeter-session: line 35: 5782
> Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) exec $@
>
> If I remove the system configs, it works fine.
>
> If I don't have the empty files in /etc/dconf/db, I get a warning that
> the local one can't be found, and then the crash (I don't get a
> warning about the site one).
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