Re: meld stopped working when run as root

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2009-12-02, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
> 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.

Crap.  I posted too soon.  Modifying the import logic only lets
you start up meld without comparing any files.  As soon as you
try to compare two files, you get the same D-bus error as
before.  Still can't use meld as root.

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