Bug#769889: dconf-CRITICAL: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.

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Hi,

I'm running Debian Jessie with Gnome 3.14 (so not MATE).
For me this is also a recurring issue, it makes the system quite 
unstable in an undebian way.

Similar messages:

gnome-session[1095]: (gnome-shell:1193): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to 
create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied.  dconf will 
not work properly.
[..]

Hope this helps to narrow it down further.

On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:33:26 +0100 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 13.11.2015 um 23:42 schrieb pioruns:
> > I just experienced this problem on Debian Jessie AMD64 with MATE.
> > mate-panel process devoured 16GB of RAM and 15GB of swap, I had to
> > reboot PC from terminal.
> > on ~/.xsession-errors  file I found never-ending stream of error messages:
> > (mate-panel:1490): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file
> > '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied.  dconf will not work
> > properly.
> >
> > I applied chmod:
> > chmod u+rx /run/user/1000/gvfs
> >
> > Result of command you asked (after chmod):
> > pioruns at debian-desktop:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/dconf/user
> > -rw------- 1 pioruns pioruns 2 Nov 13 22:28 /run/user/1000/dconf/user
> >
> > Will this chmod resolve problem, it won't back again? What is a source
> > of this problem?
>
> We had a couple of users reporting such an issue and afaicr, always MATE
> was involved. I'm inclined to say the choice of desktop environment is
> relevant here. Maybe MATE is doing something.
> As I don't use MATE, I can't tell though.
>
> Michael
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