Setting gconf/dconf keys in kickstart

[Patrick Lists]

On 08/03/2011 11:52 PM, Hugh Brown wrote:
[snip]
>> ----8<---
>> su - gdm -s /bin/bash --command='
>> for line in `dbus-launch`; do export "$line"; done;
>> /usr/libexec/dconf-service &
>> GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound
>> event-sounds false;
>> exit' 2> /dev/null
>> ----8<---
>
>
> eval `dbus-launch` should do everything in your for loop.

Thanks. It's not really my for loop. All credit goes to the Arch Linux 
wiki where I found this script.

> You might be able to revert to just setting
> /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds in the mandatory tree w/ the hope that
> the gdm user inherits those settings.

I think I tried that late last night and iirc GDM did not inherit.

> As to things, not exiting, the anaconda webpage describes this scenario:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_5._Post-installation_Script
>
> If your script spawns a daemon process, you must make sure to close
> stdout and stderr. Doing so is standard procedure for creating daemons.
> If you do not close these file descriptors, the installation will appear
> hung as anaconda waits for an EOF from the script.
>
> Killing dconf-service takes care of closing those file descriptors.

Thank you for the link (and help). I understand now why it was hanging.

Regards,
Patrick