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Bug 691612 - meld fails when run as root
meld fails when run as root
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 666136
Product: meld
Classification: Other
Component: filediff
1.7.x
Other FreeBSD
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: meld-maint
meld-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-12 15:57 UTC by Yuri
Modified: 2013-01-13 19:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Yuri 2013-01-12 15:57:37 UTC 
Sometimes there is a need to run meld as root when environment is run under the regular user.

I am getting this error, see below.
Maybe, as a workaround, it is better to at least make this a warning.

---error---
Traceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 231376

  • File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 154 in <module> 
    main()
  • File "/usr/local/bin/meld", line 136 in main 
    import meld.meldapp
  • File "/usr/local/lib/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 216 in <module> 
    app = MeldApp()
  • File "/usr/local/lib/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 113 in __init__ 
    self.prefs = preferences.MeldPreferences()
  • File "/usr/local/lib/meld/meld/preferences.py", line 259 in __init__ 
    super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
  • File "/usr/local/lib/meld/meld/util/prefs.py", line 93 in __init__ 
    self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
glib.GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: The connection is closed) 






Comment 1


Kai Willadsen





          2013-01-13 19:52:36 UTC
        



This happens because we find the gconf bindings, but can't get to a gconf server. We could fall back to the flat-file in this case, but there's no code to do so. While the actual error may be different, this is basically a dupe of bug 666136, since the underlying problem and fix are the same.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 666136 ***