From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOT8h-00065J-5i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:08:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D23AE038C; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.optus.com.au (mail2.optus.com.au [203.13.126.130]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33B3E038C for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:08:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.optus.com.au (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1880120F021 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:08:26 +1000 (EST) Received: from CHOW2KE003.optus.com.au (unknown [161.43.32.10]) by mail2.optus.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC5120F00E for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:08:26 +1000 (EST) Received: from excprdhubw002.optus.com.au ([10.10.36.116]) by CHOW2KE003.optus.com.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:08:25 +1000 Received: from excprdmbxw002.optus.com.au ([10.8.36.30]) by excprdhubw002.optus.com.au ([10.10.36.116]) with mapi; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:08:25 +1000 From: Adam Carter To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:08:19 +1000 Subject: [gentoo-user] cfg-update with meld fails Thread-Topic: cfg-update with meld fails Thread-Index: Acn/q6LA1jglUw3RRfeWkAhbmLuSVQ== Message-ID: <5602B0BD6D59AE4791BE83104940118D012B49CC00@excprdmbxw002.optus.com.au> Accept-Language: en-US, en-AU Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US, en-AU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jul 2009 09:08:25.0461 (UTC) FILETIME=[A67F2250:01C9FFAB] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: IMSS-7.0.0.3187-5.6.0.1016-16750.004 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-Result-Xfilter: Match text exemption rules:Yes X-Archives-Salt: c042bd1c-e42c-4695-9dd6-d372d03de933 X-Archives-Hash: 025a4f5be56438b2773e63edb0d2342e Ok, I think this problem occurred during the last gnome update. When cfg-up= date kicks off meld it dies with the error below. Running meld as a user wo= rks fine, running say xterm as root works fine but running meld as root fai= ls. Anyone know what's wrong? I googled the error but didn't come up with a= nything useful. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/meld", line 90, in meldapp.main() File "//usr/lib64/meld/meldapp.py", line 982, in main app =3D MeldApp() File "//usr/lib64/meld/meldapp.py", line 562, in __init__ self.prefs =3D MeldPreferences() File "//usr/lib64/meld/meldapp.py", line 435, in __init__ super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults) File "//usr/lib64/meld/prefs.py", line 92, in __init__ self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE) glib.GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes a= re that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale N= FS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ fo= r information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not = receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not se= nd a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply ti= meout expired, or the network connection was broken.)