Since I've upgraded from gnome 2.22 I've noticed that gconf-editor (and gconftool-2 too), when executed by root, does not show any entry. The error it gives to me is: "Si è verificato un errore nel caricare o nel salvare le informazioni di configurazione per gconf-editor. È possibile che alcune impostazioni della propria configurazione non funzionino correttamente." Translated would be: "An error occourred when loading or saving gconf-editor configuration's informations. It's possible that some settings in the configuration are not working correctly" The most verbose message is the following: "Contatto col server di configurazione fallito; tra le possibili cause la necessità di abilitare il supporto a TCP/IP per ORBit o la presenza di un vecchio lock NFS a causa di un crash di sistema. Consultare http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ per ulteriori informazioni (Dettagli - 1: Recupero delle connessione alla sessione fallito: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)" My user, instead of, can navigate and edit everything as usual. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a root shell 2. Run "gconf-editor" (or gconftool-2) Actual Results: The error reported above is given Expected Results: Open the GUI as was happening with v2.22 whitebox elbryan # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-tuxonice-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7300_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it en" MAKEOPTS="-j3 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gmail gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv imap ipod ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kerberos laptop libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Which entry would you expect it to show you ? Those of the root user ? Then you should start a gconfd-2 for root. If you want to see the users gconf values you might be missing some environment variables from user environment.
(In reply to comment #1) > Which entry would you expect it to show you ? Those of the root user ? Then you > should start a gconfd-2 for root. If you want to see the users gconf values you > might be missing some environment variables from user environment. > In example meld use it to add a dir. Cfg-update uses meld to compare two conf files but this is the output when running meld by root: File "//usr/lib/meld/prefs.py", line 91, in __init__ self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE) glib.GError: Contatto col server di configurazione fallito; tra le possibili cause la necessità di abilitare il supporto a TCP/IP per ORBit o la presenza di un vecchio lock NFS a causa di un crash di sistema. Consultare http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ per ulteriori informazioni (Dettagli - 1: Recupero delle connessione alla sessione fallito: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) I guess something is wrong here, don't know what. I have no reason to use gconftool-2 from root. The only one is meld. But I can't understand why before the upgrade it was working like a charm and now it's not.
because things changed. try unsetting DBUS_SESSION or set it to the same value you are using with your user and see if it helps.
(In reply to comment #3) > because things changed. try unsetting DBUS_SESSION or set it to the same value > you are using with your user and see if it helps. > I've only DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and it's set to the same value for both users. I guess DBUS_SESSION is already unset for both users.
then try unsetting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS...
(In reply to comment #5) > then try unsetting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS... > it does work now. What should I do to make it permanently?
either use su - or sudo which cleans your environment variables by default. I'm closing invalid because this is not a bug in the program it tries to access the bus, get's a no which triggers the error message you are seeing.
*** Bug 347177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
