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[Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

desrt: Any thoughts?

** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Allison Lortie (desrt)

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Title:
  xenial to yakkety upgrade : "Activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf'
  failed"

Status in d-conf package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1) Upgraded from ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) to 16.10 (yakkety)

  Result:

  My /var/log/kern.log file was very quickly filling with MB and MB of
  messages of the form

  Oct 16 12:45:23 localhost gnome-shell[2655]: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program ca.desrt.dconf: No such file or directory
   
  and my /var/log/syslog file was very quickly filling with MB and MB of messages of the form

  Oct 16 12:44:30 localhost gnome-shell[2655]: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program ca.desrt.dconf: No such file or directory
  Oct 16 12:44:30 localhost dbus-daemon[2284]: Activating service name='ca.desrt.dconf'
  Oct 16 12:44:30 localhost dbus-daemon[2284]: Activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf' failed: Failed to execute program ca.desrt.dconf: No such file or directory

  Workaround: 
  moved .config/dconf to a backup directory (contents attached), and restarted: while at least the kern.log logs keep coming, at least they are coming like one at a time over a long period of time rather than a million at a time, also gnome-shell seems much more stable now (it hasn't crashed since I did this).

  
  gnome-shell:
    Installed: 3.20.4-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.20.4-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.20.4-0ubuntu1 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  dconf-service:
    Installed: 0.26.0-2
    Candidate: 0.26.0-2
    Version table:
   *** 0.26.0-2 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: dconf-service 0.26.0-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Sun Oct 16 13:56:22 2016
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-09 (829 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140708)
  SourcePackage: d-conf
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-16 (0 days ago)

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