GNOME appearance settings not honored after today's update

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 17:05 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 01:39 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Fri, 19.11.10 16:00, Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > I just updated Rawhide with 2010-11-19 packages, and after the reboot,
> > > all my GNOME appearance preferences are no longer honored.
> > > 
> > > I had all fonts changed to Droid, icon theme changed to Tango, and set
> > > to display text only on buttons (not icons), and no icons in menus.
> > > After the reboot, none of these are being honored. I note they're not
> > > listed in gconf-editor any more; if I look in dconf-editor, matching
> > > settings are present and appear to be set to what I want (Tango theme,
> > > Droid fonts etc) but these settings do not seem to be taking effect.
> > > 
> > > Is this a bug? Known? Note that I'm using metacity rather than
> > > gnome-shell as I can't run gnome-shell in Rawhide ATM.
> > 
> > Your gnome-settings-daemon probably crashed?
> 
> Turns out to be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654790 , I'm
> not the only one hitting it. I can re-run g-s-d after GNOME starts, and
> it works.

There's a few patches in master that could be related. I'll try to get a
new version out.