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

[Gerry Boland]

On Thu 03 Nov 2011 07:51:02 PM CET, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
> 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) ...

<snip>

> 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
>

Yes, there's something wrong there. You do not need nor want sudo to 
run that.

Please make sure you do "sudo apt-get update" and try reinstalling 
dconf with "sudo apt-get install --reinstall dconf"
and try those commands again.

Doing "ls -l /usr/bin/dconf" I get

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44104 2011-09-27 09:37 dconf

and "ls -l /var/log | grep dconf" gives

drwxr-xr-x  2 root              root    4096 2007-10-27 10:49 dconf/

Do check these things match yours.
-Gerry