This is a bug in either su or sudo. When copying the user environment, it fails to correctly copy the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID, and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_WINDOWID variables. This may be working as intended, I'm not sure exactly how sudo/su function in terms of copying transient variables from a currently running session. Note, the above solution *does* work, albeit being a bit of a hack. Because of it's failure to copy the variables, gconftool-2 cannot find the currently running gconfd process, and silently fails to send it the reload config signal.
gconftool-2 should report when it fails to find a running gconfd process. -- gconfd does not refresh cache when sudo-ing current user to modify setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
