Bug#520953: gconf2: configuration is not available for root!

[Mark Poks]

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.24.0-7
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

when trying to run gnome application as root - such as gedit, it gives the
following failure:

"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.)"

it makes any application for gnome that uses gconf settings daemon unusable when
using as root. as normal user it seems to work ok.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (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 gconf2 depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                   1.2.12-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2-common              2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                      2.7-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.18.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library
ii  psmisc                     22.6-1        Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  python                     2.5.4-2       An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gconf2 recommends:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.12-1  The GTK+ graphical user interface 

Versions of packages gconf2 suggests:
pn  gconf-defaults-service        <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information