I have installed a local version of emacs in /usr/local/share in addition to the emacs-pgtk package

The local version created the attached file org.gnu.emacs.defaults.gschema.xml in /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

This is actually a duplicate of the file from emacs-pgtk in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

There is also the file gschemas.compiled in /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas

XDG_DATA_DIRS is set to

~$ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/

Now, the command

gsettings list-recursively

without specifying a SCHEMA, does not produce any output

It seems to work ok when specifying a SCHEMA e.g

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.default-applications

If I delete /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled then the command without a SCHEMA works again