On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:22 AM, stan <gryt2@xxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:56:18 -0400I don't have that folder in ~/.gconf on my system. Only apps and
Paul Otheim <coriolis220@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I went into the ~/.gconf/system folder, since the problem was not
> application specific it seemed like a good place to start.
desktop. Both those folders have the %gconf.xml file in them. And I
just checked, I can play an mp3.
I don't know for sure, but I would guess it is being used as some sort
> So my question now is what is the purpose of this empty file?
of flag. Or perhaps for locking.
It probably indicates the access for gstreamer in the system. Maybe
> Presumably the apps go into the ~/.gconf/system
> directory looking for these files, apparently they would hit this
> particular instance of it and use it for something but who knows what?
you have to be a member of a specific group to use gstreamer if it is
flagged in system. I suspect you could move the entire system folder to
something else and your sound would work just fine, and there would be
no other problems.
You probably did something on your system that had the inadvertent side
effect of creating this. I don't know enough about what this is to
tell what you might have done.
Anyhow you have sound back. And you know something more about your
system.
Thanks for all the input. Just a small correction though I never lost sound only the ability to save in mp3 format. Anyway I have found some documentation
and they appear to be used to store preferences( the %gconf.xml files). Not sure why so many empty files exist, nor how this one ended up in this location
when by all indications it did not belong there....that is what bothers me more than anything else. I'll keep working through the documentation though most of it seems directed at how to use the file and is unlikely to tell me how it got there , the last modification date seems to be right around the time I noticed the problem to begin with, I will have to get my magnifying glass and pipe out and sift through logs and such.
Thanks to all
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