[gentoo-user] GNOME configuration problem

[gentoo-user] GNOME configuration problem

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I'm not using the full GNOME desktop but only single applications like  
'meld'.

(Only) for some users (including root on one machine and a non-root  
user on an another machine)
meld fails with :

   File "/usr/lib64/meld/meld/ui/historyentry.py", line 121, in  
_save_history
self.__gconf_client.set_list(key, gconf.VALUE_STRING, gconf_items)
glib.GError:
Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: Can't overwrite
existing read-only value: Value for
`/apps/gnome-settings/meld/history-direntry' set in a read-only source  
at the
front of your configuration path


I have even removed $HOME/.gconf  and $HOME/.local/meld with no success.

Any hints are very much appreciated,
Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME configuration problem

[Daniel Troeder]

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Am 04.02.2013 11:52, schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not using the full GNOME desktop but only single applications like
> 'meld'.
> 
> (Only) for some users (including root on one machine and a non-root user
> on an another machine)
> meld fails with :
> 
>   File "/usr/lib64/meld/meld/ui/historyentry.py", line 121, in
> _save_history
> self.__gconf_client.set_list(key, gconf.VALUE_STRING, gconf_items)
> glib.GError:
> Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: Can't overwrite
> existing read-only value: Value for
> `/apps/gnome-settings/meld/history-direntry' set in a read-only source
> at the
> front of your configuration path
> 
> 
> I have even removed $HOME/.gconf  and $HOME/.local/meld with no success.
> 
> Any hints are very much appreciated,
> Helmut.
> 
The "read-only source" of gconf is in /etc/gconf/, probably
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml

I use meld too, but I have no entry of it in /etc/gconf (checked with
"grep -ri meld /etc/gconf/").

But I do have entries for the gconf-path
`/apps/gnome-settings/meld/history-direntry' if I look at it with
gconf-editor. They are stored in
~/.gconf/apps/gnome-settings/meld/%gconf.xml
It seems "history-direntry" is a list of directories I used meld in.

Hope the info helps debugging,
Daniel

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