[desktop-discuss] [install-discuss] nv_87 popup warning during M9 upgrade

[Albert Lee]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 03:56 -0700, Robert Harryman wrote:
> When upgrading my M9 to nv_87 I got the warning:
> 
> "Cannot create the directory '/root/.gnome2/share/fonts'
> This is needed to allow changing the mouse pointer theme."
> 
> I ignored it and the upgrade appeared to succeed.
> 
> -bob
>  

Also http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=225126&tstart=0


The error is from gnome-settings-daemon, which is being started probably
because a package installation script runs gconftool-2 to install a
GConf schema.

The home directory for the root user was recently changed to "/root",
which is not created by default. It does not need to exist. However,
gnome-settings-daemon tries to create files in this non-existent
directory, which obviously fails.

I believe this is a bug in gnome-settings-daemon, since it should not be
touching any files in the home directory at all when it is modifying the
default GConf database.