Interview With Fabio - Ubuntu Developer

Albert albertwagner at cox.net
Tue Dec 6 16:28:07 UTC 2005


'Forum Post wrote:
> Albert Wrote: 
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>>To anyone interested:
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>>Baobab leaves some slime behind when it is uninstalled.  I did a 
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>>complete uninstall with Synaptic, then a new install;  And the same 
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>>crash occurs.  Apparently, some hidden config file is left behind but 
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>>without the name 'baobab'.  I tried updatedb/locate baobab and found 
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>>only the files in ~/.gconf/apps/baobab.  Even deleting these files 
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>>didn't affect anything.  It still crashes after a clean reinstall.
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> There is a bug on gconf keys. 
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> Open GConf configuration editor, apps->baobab->properties and clear the
> variable "noscan".

As noted just above in my previous post, I deleted ~/.gconf/apps/baobab 
after a complete uninstall failed to remove it;  Therefore, it does not 
appear in the configuration editor.  Does Baobab continue to reference 
the copy in .Trash?





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