Bug#582839: gconf2: many GConf errors when applications are started from the "screen" utility

Mon May 24 01:12:27 UTC 2010

Package: gconf2
Version: 2.28.1-3
Severity: normal

When I start applications using GConf (such as gthumb and liferea)
from a "screen" window, I get many GConf errors:

** (gthumb:24754): WARNING **: GConf error:
  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: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-ENas4H9v2w: Connection refused)

and so on. I don't know whether the culprit is gconf2 or dbus...

In the "screen" session, I have:

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-ENas4H9v2w,guid=8f34077d53a0c20686fd4419004ed7d0

in my environment, while I have:

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-8YWMhIOvpA,guid=10a6d6d450278bf513f5ec6b009b469f

otherwise. IMHO, any method based on the environment (except DISPLAY,
which doesn't change in general) is broken because the environment
isn't something global.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                    1.2.24-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2-common               2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                       2.10.2-9     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.24.1-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libxml2                     2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii  psmisc                      22.11-1      utilities that use the proc file s
ii  python                      2.5.4-9      An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gconf2 recommends:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.1-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 

Versions of packages gconf2 suggests:
ii  gconf-defaults-service        2.28.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste

-- no debconf information