GSettings bug on PowerPC

that's a dup of bug 621507, please comment there if you still facing the issue.

The issue is a different one

I'm still getting the same

rquint@old-iMac:~$ evince

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.Evince.Default' is not installed

aborting...
Aborted

with everything up to date as of 1116 PDT 22Oct10. Is there any diagnostic I can run to help pin down what the problem is?

I'm currently asking the glib developers if they know of the problem and how complex it is to fix. There are some changes that have since been made to glib that fix endianess issues that probably have something to do with it. Unfortunately I don't have any PPC hardware handy to test with.

I pulled the latest glib tree from git, installed it over the Ubuntu package (i.e. with prefix=/usr), and recompiled the schemas ("sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas"). Now evince and all other applications like gcalctool which crashed with a similar error run again as expected.

So thefix seems to be in git, but not in the latest "stable" glib package.

How long does it take for something like glib to move from the git into the current distribution's repository? I'm wondering if I should wait instead of rolling my own.

Ummm, apparently the re-built package from git is not the full solution... Evince now opens and displays pdf's, but sometimes crashes with

albrecht@antares:~$ evince Desktop/MPC5200BE.pdf
evince: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_main_context_invoke

Not sure what actually triggers the crash; it is possible to scroll through the document, but resizing the windows triggers it. I hope I don't have to re-build all of gnome... :-( Thus a solid backport of the fix would be highly appreciated!

I assume that's fixed in 2.27 in natty.

Any testers of the maverick-proposed package? As this has been in -proposed for a long time already, I'll remove the proposed package soon if there is no feedback. Thank you!

I installed a self-compiled 2.26.1 release on my PowerPC over the original deb package, and the issue is completely gone. The original package still has the issue.

Sorry, I've no idea how to test the 'proposed' package, but I'm pretty sure that updating to 2.26.1 will solve the problem.

Best,
Albrecht.

The maverick-proposed package seems to work fine, I don't have problems resizing pdf windows, no crashes. (This is not a PowerPC).

This bug was fixed in the package glib2.0 - 2.26.1-0ubuntu1

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glib2.0 (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Fixes (LP: #663384)
  * debian/control:
    - Update Vcs-Bzr link
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:57:47 +1100