Re: [gentoo-dev] showing file diffs as root

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

Le dimanche 30 mai 2010 à 10:59 -0400, Christopher Harvey a écrit :
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> Hello gentoo-dev,
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> I'm working on an app for GSoC that needs to show a diff of two files
> to the user. Right now I've just been calling meld from the python
> os.system call. I tried running my application as root to show diffs
> of system files that belong to root. I got this error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/meld", line 90, in <module>
>     meldapp.main()
>   File "/usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 982, in main
>     app = MeldApp()
>   File "/usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 562, in __init__
>     self.prefs = MeldPreferences()
>   File "/usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 435, in __init__
>     super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
>   File "/usr/lib/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 are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
> have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
> http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
> Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible
> causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the
> message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
> expired, or the network connection was broken.)
>
> I haven't looked into why this is happening very much

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286577
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302597

and probably a couple more duplicates.

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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Gentoo