Re: Unusual GTK error message

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

This was a bug that was recently fixed in gtk+:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671817

The fix will be in the next stable release of gtk+.

A workaround is to create the .local/share directory:

  mkdir -p .local/share

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

On Friday, 20 July 2012, David Buchan wrote:

> Background info: My program uses a file chooser dialog. I compiled it for
> the first time today on a 64-bit machine with Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with
> gtk-3-dev. My program is run as root. I've been using it extensively on
> 32-bit machine with libtgtk2.0-dev and Ubuntu 10.04 with no errors.
>
> When I use the file chooser dialog, the following three errors appear on
> stdout:
>
> (myprogram:2755): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into
> `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file
> '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.PLPWHW': No such file or directory
>
> (myprogram:2755): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of
> `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or
> directory
>
> (myprogram:2755): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into
> `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file
> '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.5R5GHW': No such file or directory
>
> (myprogram:2755): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of
> `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or
> directory
>
>
> Any ideas? A google search comes up completely dry (!! when did that
> happen last? weird) as does a Yahoo search. Dead end, it would seem. I'm
> certainly not at all keen to muck around in /root/.
>
>
> Can this have something to do with running as root? It didn't throw errors
> for 32-bit with libgtk2.0-dev.
>
> Dave
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