Comment 10 for bug 130152

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1. There are profile entries in ~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/profiles.
2. They are directories named per the profile name, e.g., a directory is named mp3, and an 'mp3' entry is shown in the profile editor.
<quote>
~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/profiles>la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 nak users 80 2009-05-14 13:48 aac
drwxr-xr-x 2 nak users 80 2009-05-14 13:05 CD@32@Best@32@Mp3@32@Quality@44@@32@mp3
drwxr-xr-x 2 nak users 80 2009-05-14 13:06 cdlossless
drwxr-xr-x 2 nak users 80 2009-05-14 13:48 cdlossy
-rw-r--r-- 1 nak users 0 2009-05-12 11:19 %gconf.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 nak users 80 2009-05-14 13:48 mp2
drwxr-xr-x 2 nak users 80 2009-05-14 13:48 mp3
drwxr-xr-x 2 nak users 80 2009-05-14 13:48 voicelossless
drwxr-xr-x 2 nak users 80 2009-05-14 12:59 voicelossy
</quote>
3. The contents of each directory is a %gconf.xml file
4. The contents of the UNTOUCHED %gconf.xml file is:
<quote>
    ~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/profiles>cat aac/%gconf.xml
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <gconf>
         <entry name="active" mtime="1242326831" type="bool" value="true"/>
    </gconf>
</quote>
5. The contents of the edited or new are much different:
<quote>
~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/profiles>cat mp3/%gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
 <entry name="active" mtime="1242326842" type="bool" value="true"/>
 <entry name="name" mtime="1242145529" type="string">
  <stringvalue>CD Quality, MP3</stringvalue>
 </entry>
 <entry name="pipeline" mtime="1242145934" type="string">
  <stringvalue>audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 -h ! id3v2mux</stringvalue>
 </entry>
</gconf>
</quote>
6. If one of the untouched %gconf.xml files is opened in the profile editor, it has contents shown, though the %gconf.xml file in these directories does not appear to contain any data beyond the <entry name> value.
7. All of these .xml files appear to have incorrect syntax -- the <entry name> value has no closing </entry>. Or, the two that don't show up have </entry> for their <entry>lines, except for the first <engry name> value. But adding a </entry> has no affedt.
8. I remove --purged sound-juicer gnome-media, etc. This had no affect on the files I mention above.
9. I reinstalled and the new profile shows up in the profile editor. But now the edited profile (the mp3 profile) has reverted to its pre-edited format. It now shows up in sound-juicer. The new profile remains unavailable.
10. If I delete the new profile directory at the filesystem level, it STILL shows up in the gnome profile editor.