One foot out the door!: I've grown to hate Linux Ubuntu

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Thu 03 Nov 2011 18:53:16 SAST, Gerry Boland wrote:
>
> >/Subject: One foot out the door!: I've grown to hate Linux Ubuntu
> />/
> />/Part 1:http://youtu.be/A98xaimAF-g
> />/Part 2:http://youtu.be/2TItsrnmmHw
> /
> Hey Douglas,
> I'm a developer on the Unity 2D team. Your second video showing the 
> Launcher locked on screen is a massive bug,
> but I'm using Unity2D every day and I've never experienced it (aside 
> from this bug: [1] which isn't your issue).
> Nor can I find any such report in Launchpad.
>
> Would you mind answering a few questions:
> 1. Had you noticed a concrete way of reproducing this bug?
> 2. Does the Launcher behave correctly ever? As in, is the auto-hide 
> working at the start, but then gets stuck?
> 3. This is stock Ubuntu install, or an upgrade?
> 4. Can you please tell me the model of the netbook you're using?
> 5. In a Terminal, please run
> dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
> and
> dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/use-strut
> and give me the shell output. These keys define the launcher's 
> behaviour. I'd like to check that they're set ok.
>
> We want our software to work properly for everybody, I am sorry you're 
> having such a poor experience. Any assistance
> you can give would be greatly appreciated.
> -Gerry
>
>
> [1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-2d/+bug/884267
>
>


Gerry there seems to be problem with dconf (both 3D and 2D) see below:

@shox ➜ ~ sudo apt-get install dconf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dconf
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 115 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe dconf all 
0.5.1-2 [15.2 kB]
Fetched 15.2 kB in 0s (41.0 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package dconf.
(Reading database ... 158207 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dconf (from .../archives/dconf_0.5.1-2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dconf (0.5.1-2) ...
@shox ➜ ~ dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
zsh: correct 'dconf' to 'done' [nyae]? n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 481, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 336, in main
symlink(which('dconf'), cronfile)
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 216, in symlink
os.symlink(src, dst)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
@shox ➜ ~ sudo dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
@shox ➜ ~ dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
zsh: correct 'dconf' to 'done' [nyae]? n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 481, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 364, in main
os.chmod(cf.logdir, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/log/dconf'
@shox ➜ ~
@shox ➜ ~ dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
zsh: correct 'dconf' to 'done' [nyae]? n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 481, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 364, in main
os.chmod(cf.logdir, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/log/dconf'
@shox ➜ ~ dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
zsh: correct 'dconf' to 'done' [nyae]? n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 481, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 364, in main
os.chmod(cf.logdir, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/log/dconf'
@shox ➜ ~ dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
zsh: correct 'dconf' to 'done' [nyae]? n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 481, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 364, in main
os.chmod(cf.logdir, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/log/dconf'
@shox ➜ ~ sudo dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
@shox ➜ ~ dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/use-strut
zsh: correct 'dconf' to 'done' [nyae]? n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 481, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 364, in main
os.chmod(cf.logdir, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/log/dconf'
@shox ➜ ~ sudo dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/use-strut
@shox ➜ ~ bash
bruce at shox:~$ dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/use-strut
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 481, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 364, in main
os.chmod(cf.logdir, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/log/dconf'
bruce at shox:~$ dconf read /com/canonical/unity-2d/launcher/hide-mode
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 481, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/dconf", line 364, in main
os.chmod(cf.logdir, 0700)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/log/dconf'
bruce at shox:~$ zsh

-- 
Best of luck,

Bruce