[Bug 50150] Re: Configuration editor reports that no schema can be found since latest dapper updates

[Tamara Roberson]

I happened to reboot this weekend and had a shock.  What I ended up
doing was just downgrading to Gnome 2.14.  It seems to be a problem with
the GConf schemas but I just decided to downgrade everything and wait
until someone else fixed it.

Downgrading is rather awkward with the Debian system but I've found the
easiest way is to remove Gtk and then everything that depends on it will
be removed (although all your settings will remain as long as you don't
purge as well).  Then just make sure that you have dapper in your
/etc/apt/sources.list and set to be the default in /etc/apt/preferences
and reinstall what you want.

Some things like *-common are left over because they do not depend on
libgtk.  A simple command-line which may be helpful to downgrade these
is:

$ for pkg in `dpkg -l | grep ^ii| grep 2.15 | cut -d" " -f3`; do version
=`apt-cache show $pkg | grep Version | grep 2.14 | cut -d" " -f2`; sudo
apt-get install $pkg=$version; done

Just make sure there's nothing else that happens to have a version
number of 2.15 (I didn't have anything on my system).

Hopefully someone will fix the schema issue soon so upgrades will go
smoothly.

-- Tamara

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Configuration editor reports that no schema can be found since latest dapper updates
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50150