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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 24 mai 2010 à 03:12 +0200, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : 
> 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)

The error message is bogus. In most cases this is a D-Bus error. 

> 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.

Huh? Of course it is not global, it is specific to your session.

Actually, just passing $DISPLAY should be enough.

Cheers,
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