Comment 18 for bug 981053

I have tried update but I do not recall in what order. I could find no
documentation for it and I do not recall seeing it mentioned on the
sysadmin's guide page mentioned.
On Apr 16, 2012 7:31 AM, "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> 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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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/981053
>>
>> 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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