Comment 2 for bug 26523

dpkg -l | grep gconf
ii gconf 1.0.9-7.1
      GNOME configuration database system. (daemon
ii gconf-editor 2.12.1-1ubuntu1
      An editor for the GConf configuration system
ii gconf2 2.12.1-4ubuntu1
      GNOME configuration database system (support
ii gconf2-common 2.12.1-4ubuntu1
      GNOME configuration database system (common
rc gstreamer-gconf 0.6.4-5.1
      GConf support for GStreamer
ii libextutils-pkgconfig-perl 1.07-1
      simplistic perl interface to pkg-config
ii libgconf-cil 1.0.10-2ubuntu1
      CLI binding for GConf
ii libgconf11 1.0.9-7.1
      GNOME configuration database system librarie
ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-4ubuntu1
      GNOME configuration database system (shared
ii libgconf2-dev 2.12.1-4ubuntu1
      GNOME configuration database system (develop
ii libgconf2-ruby 0.13.0-2ubuntu1
      GConf 2 bindings for the Ruby language
ii libgconf2.0-cil 2.4.0-1ubuntu1
      CLI binding for GConf 2.6
rc libgconfmm2.0-1c102 2.0.2-1
      C++ wrappers for GConf2 (shared library)
ii libgnome2-gconf-perl 1.020-1
      Perl interface to the GNOME GConf library
ii libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 0.8.11-2ubuntu1
      GConf support for GStreamer
ii libgstreamer-gconf0.8-dev 0.8.11-2ubuntu1
      Development files for GConf support for GStr

ls -l /etc/gconf/2/path
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1196 2005-12-02 03:20 /etc/gconf/2/path

ls -l /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
total 1441
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1470859 2005-12-03 21:51 %gconf-tree.xml

ls -l /var/lib/gconf/defaults/
total 3576
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3655964 2005-12-02 22:28 %gconf-tree.xml

gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme
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