Re: meld stopped working when run as root

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2009-10-07, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:

> I'm guessing you're seeing
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555745 (in gconf) though
> why it only just started happening I have no idea. Anyway, the 'su -'
> workaround seems to work.

Using 'su -' produces a different error:

  # meld
  process 8383: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
  See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
    D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
  Aborted

> Unless Gentoo has patched one in, Meld doesn't support a 'no Gnome'
> mode. Having said that, if Meld fails to find gconf, it will use
> python's configparser configuration backend instead. If you really
> don't want gconf at all, you can change the import logic at the end of
> prefs.py.

Modifying the import logic to not use gconf does work.

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