[MacPorts] #22992: gedit preferences locked

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#22992: gedit preferences locked
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 Reporter:  nigra@…         |       Owner:  devans@…           
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  assigned           
 Priority:  Normal          |   Milestone:                     
Component:  ports           |     Version:  1.8.1              
 Keywords:                  |        Port:  gedit              
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Changes (by devans@…):

  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 I can't reproduce the problem here with gedit on SL 10.6.4 x86_64 (i5).
 Normally this type of behavior is symptomatic of a problem with the
 program accessing the gconfd server, either with GConf itself or a problem
 with dbus.  While running gedit you see something like this:


 {{{
 % ps ax
 ...
 95474   ??  S      0:00.07 /opt/local/libexec/gconfd-2
 ...
 }}}


 However, this usually results in error messages to the console (when you
 start it from CLI), if GConf is
 not working.

 Try setting the environment variable GEDIT_DEBUG_PREFS to get verbose
 debug output.  This should tell you
 more than you wanted to know about gedit-prefences-manager and a line
 every time a preference is read or
 written.

 Also to verify that GConf is installed and working correctly, try running
 gconf-editor which allows you to
 view and edit preferences settings in GConf directly.  Look under path
 /apps/gedit-2/preferences.

 Let me know if you find anything that sheds light on the situation.

 By the way, running from root should screw things up as you mentioned
 because GConf runs as part of the user
 session.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/22992#comment:5>
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