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 2009-12-02, 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.

Running "dbus-uuidgen --ensure" created /var/lib/dbus/machine-id,
so now I can run meld using sudo.  It will also work after "su -",
but you have to manually set DISPLAY.  Not quite as convenient
as it used to be when it would "just work" after an "su", but
it's progress.

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! I'm using my X-RAY
                                  at               VISION to obtain a rare
                               visi.com            glimpse of the INNER
                                                   WORKINGS of this POTATO!!