I'm setting a fresh Debian 12 bookworm up.
I played a little with settings and extensions.
While trying to set my compose key —GUI allows to set it as "pause", but it has no effect, while I can choose "right-super"— I could have messed up a bit.
I downloaded and executed the perl script at https://askubuntu.com/questions/26056/where-are-gnome-keyboard-shortcuts-stored, but only in export mode anyway: ./keybindings.pl -e /tmp/keys.csv.
I ran it both as root and as user 1000.
In both cases I get
dconf-WARNING **: 16:55:41.021: unable to open file '/etc/dconf/db/local:X': L’ouverture du fichier « /etc/dconf/db/local:X » a échoué : échec de open() : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type; expect degraded performance
Neither Google nor Bing have any response to the query for "/etc/dconf/db/local:X" (with quotes).
dconf itself is just a back-end for configuration settings…
According to loginctl, my session is of type Wayland.
I currently have
$ ls -l /etc/dconf/db
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2024-12-30 12:41 ibus.d
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2025-01-13 10:52 local.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 ondelettes ondelettes 5459 2025-01-14 16:56 ibus
-rw-r--r-- 1 ondelettes ondelettes 408 2025-01-14 16:56 local
$ ls -l /etc/dconf/profile
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28 2023-02-13 12:22 ibus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 2025-01-13 10:39 user
$ chmod a+rxw /etc/dconf/db had no effect on the issue.
$ dconf update as user or root returns no error, nor any improvement.
If I touch /etc/dconf/db/local:X, I get invalid gvdb header the next time.
If I launch gnome-terminal or soffice from command line, I get the same warning message (unable to open file '/etc/dconf/db/local:X'), which is annoying as I work whole day from command line.
chmod a+rxw /etc/dconf/dbwah! Don't do such things! Undo it!strace -f... and a suitable selection which system calls you want to trace, e.g.-e trace=fileopenat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/dconf/db/local:X", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT. I just have no idea how to use that command. Thank you anyway.