Bug#518128: default configuration not loaded when running gnome-terminal as root

Paul Hartley phartley at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 10:20:20 UTC 2009 

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.22.3-3
Severity: normal


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From: Paul Hartley <phartley at gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gnome-terminal: running terminal as root does not load default settings
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:05:26 -0800

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.22.3-3
Severity: normal


My gconf2 libraries were recently updated, and when I am logged in as a normal user and run gnome-terminal as root 
(i.e. Applications->Accessories->Root Terminal), the terminal window loads normally, but the default settings (i.e. 
background color) are not loaded, and I get the error message pasted below.  I can still use the terminal normally.  
I do not observe this issue with loading default settings if I run the normal user terminal (i.e. 
Applications->Accessories->Terminal).  I can replicate this problem on two different machines that were updated 
simultaneously.

Error message upon loading root terminal:
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://www.gnome.org/projects/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.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.22.3-3      Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.0-2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.7-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.3-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.18.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.12-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.16-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.22.4-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.9-1         library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                    1:0.16.14-4   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.4-2     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-16     A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                         2.22.1-8+b1 Help browser for GNOME 2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.22.3-3      Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.0-2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.7-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.3-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.18.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.12-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.16-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.22.4-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.9-1         library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                    1:0.16.14-4   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.4-2     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-16     A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                         2.22.1-8+b1 Help browser for GNOME 2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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